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Former education and science minister of Georgia Khatia Dekanoidze has been appointed as the Chief of the Ukrainian National Police.

His appointment was approved at a sitting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Nov. 4 evening.

Dekanoidze was nominated by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and was presented by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.