Vitaliy Boiko | |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Office: | Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine |
Term Start: | 21 December 1994 |
Term End: | 24 October 2002 |
Predecessor: | Heorhiy Butenko |
Successor: | Vasyl Malyarenko |
Office1: | Minister of Justice of Ukraine |
Term Start1: | 2 August 1990 |
Term End1: | 20 March 1992 |
Subterm1: | First Secretary |
Suboffice1: | Stanislav Hurenko (until 1991) |
President1: | Leonid Kravchuk (from 1991) |
Primeminister1: | |
Predecessor1: | Volodymyr Zaichuk |
Successor1: | Volodymyr Kampo |
Office2: | Ambassador of Ukraine to Moldova |
Term Start2: | 1993 |
Term End2: | 1994 |
President2: | Leonid Kravchuk |
Primeminister2: |
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Predecessor2: | Position established |
Birth Date: | 30 September 1937 |
Birth Place: | Kropyvne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
Alma Mater: | Kharkiv Law Institute |
Occupation: | Politician, jurist, diplomat |
Vitaliy Fedorovych Boiko (Ukrainian: Віталій Федорович Бойко; 30 September 1937 – 30 January 2020[1]) was a Ukrainian lawyer, diplomat, and Minister of Justice.
Boiko was from Chernihiv Oblast. He graduated from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in 1963 and until 1976 worked as a judge in Dnipropetrovsk and then until 1986 as a judge in Donetsk.
In 1986 to 1992 Boiko worked in Ministry of Justice and held ministerial post. Concurrently with that he also headed the Central Electoral Commission. In 1993–1994 Boiko served as an Ambassador of Ukraine to Moldova. In 1994–2002 he was a chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.
He was awarded the Honorary Award of the President of Ukraine, the forerunner of the Order of Merit.