Viktor Yahun
Ukrainian military personnel
Viktor Yahun (Ukrainian: Ві́ктор Микола́йович Ягу́н; born 5 August 1970, Telenești, Moldova) is a Ukrainian military and public figure, Major general of the Security Service of Ukraine, the former deputy chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (from March 2014 to June 2015).
Biography
Born in Moldova, Ukrainian by nationality.
From 1977 to 1987 he studied in secondary school number 2 in Telenești.
From 1987 to 1992 he studied at the Lviv Forestry Institute.
Since 1988 he has been actively involved in social and political movements for the independence of Ukraine.
Since 1989, he has served as the Chairman of the Student Brotherhood Lviv Forestry Institute.
Since December 1989, he has been a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UHU).
In October 1990 he became one of the organizers and active participants of the student hunger strike Revolution on Granite, which took place in Kyiv. The protests ended with the signing of the USSR Verkhovna Rada act, which guaranteed the implementation of protesters' requirements.
From June 1992 to February 1994 he worked in senior positions for major field of forestry and hunting in the Lviv region.
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