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Anatoliy Hrytsenko – an ex-Minister of Defense of Ukraine. A colonel of reserve. Occupied this post from 2005 until 2007.

For 25 years of military career served in front parts, worked as the teacher in the higher military educational institution, on staff posts in the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, headed Management of problems of military safety and military building of the Research centre of Joint Staff MF of Ukraine.

For a long time Gritsenko worked in Alexander Rozumkov's team, and after his death has headed the Ukrainian centre of economic and political researches named in honour of Rozumkov.

Today on the post of the Minister of Defence Anatoly Grytsenko supports westernized views of supervision, besides, advocates joining Ukraine the NATO, more over the minister notices that such step will be achievement for the North Atlantic alliance from the point of view of Armed forces." We have high military potential - peace-making, transport, technological. - marks Grytsenko. - Therefore we can render the real help to European countries in the decision of general safety issues ". And such cooperation, according to Anatoly Grytsenko, is quite really as Ukraine already now successfully carries out similar problems in many peace-making missions.

Anatoly Grytsenko 's wifeis awellknown Ukrainian journalist, the assistant of the editor-in-chief of " Week`s mirror " newspaper Yulia Mostova.

Anatoly Grytsenko has four children.