Svyatoslav Piskun

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Svyatoslav Piskun
Святослав Піскун

Incumbent
Assumed office 
April 26, 2007

In office
December 10, 2004 – October 14, 2005

In office
July 06, 2002 – October 29, 2003

Born March 8, 1959 (1959-03-08) (age 49)
Flag of the Soviet Union Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party Independent
Spouse Svitlana Sevast'yanivna (1962)
Children Tetyana (1983), Svyatoslav (2000)
Residence Flag of Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine
Religion Jewish

Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun (Ukrainian: Святослав Михайлович Піскун, born March 8, 1959) was the 3 times Prosecutor General of Ukraine in 2002-2003, 2005 and 2007 to the present time. He is an important participant of several scandals, including the cases of Georgiy R. Gongadze murder and United Energy Systems of Ukraine of Yulia Tymoshenko.

Piskun is the only statesman in Ukraine whose sacking by two different Presidents has been subsequently dismissed each time by the courts.[1]

On March, 2006 he was elected as people deputy of Verkhovna Rada from Party of Regions list as №96 - but he was not party member.[2].

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  1. ^ Laws of Ukraine. Presidential Decree No. 357/2007: Question of S. Piskun. Passed on 2007-04-26. (Ukrainian)
  2. ^ Information about people deputy Svyatoslav Piskun (Ukrainian). Official website of Verkhovna Rada. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.


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