Mykola Dzhyha Explained

Mykola Dzhyha
Native Name Lang:uk
Office:Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast
Term Start:2010
Term End:2012
Predecessor:Volodymyr Demishkan
Successor:Ivan Movchan
Birth Name:Mykola Vasylyovych Dzhyha
Birth Date:15 May 1949
Birth Place:Yarove, Sharhorod Raion, Ukrainian SSR
Party:Party of Regions
Alma Mater:Academy of the USSR
Kyiv University

Mykola Vasylyovych Dzhyha (; born 15 May 1949, Yarove, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian career militsiya officer and later politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada. He is a Colonel General of Militsiya.

In 1966-1971 Dzhyha started with small low pay jobs in Fastiv. After finishing the Saratov specialized school of Militsiya, in 1973-2002 he made a career as a militsiya officer starting out as an investigator and finishing as a chief of the Central Administration for Combating Organized Crime (HUBOZ).

Between 2002 and 2004 Dzhyha headed the Interpol National Bureau in Ukraine and the Tax Militsiya Investigation Administration. Dzhyha was a closer colleague of the Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Kravchenko and conducted investigation relating to Georgiy Gongadze issue. Dzhyha also does not believe the official version that Kravchenko committed suicide.[1] During one of the Dzhyha's investigation, the documents that were showing a rent of land lot where Mezhyhiria is located were removed from the Vyshhorod district administration (Mezhyhirya Residence is located in Vyshhorod Raion).[2]

With small break in 2006-2014 he was a member of Verkhovna Rada representing Party of Regions. In 2010-2012 he served as a Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast.

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  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20180121000746/http://www.dsnews.ua/politics/art43829 Governor with epaulettes. To conquer the oppositional Vinnytsia regional council, the President sent Colonel General of Militsiya (Губернатор в погонах. Покорять оппозиционный Винницкий облсовет Президент отправил генерал-полковника милиции)
  2. [Serhiy Leshchenko|Leshchenko, S]