Vitaliy Boiko Explained

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:
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.

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  1. https://www.unian.ua/politics/10852157-pomer-pershiy-ministr-yusticiji-ukrajini-vitaliy-boyko.html There died the first minister of Justice of Ukraine Vitaliy Boiko (Помер перший міністр юстиції України Віталій Бойко)