Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)
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The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is the main body in the system of central bodies of the executive power that provides realization of a state legal policy. It is often abbreviated as Мiniust [України]. It is one of the oldest ministerial offices in Ukraine tracing its history back to the beginning of 20th century.
, his/hers first deputy, and other deputies in assistance to the minister. To the central body of ministry also belongs the government official in affairs of the European Court of Human Rights
, who represents Ukraine in the mentioned international institution. There are several state departments and agencies that are assigned to the leadership of the ministry, each deputy of which is also assigned a territorial representation of local authorities of justice.
Main objectives
- Ensuring realization of the state legal policy and the policy in the sphere of adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union.
- Preparation of propositions in conducting legal reforms and promoting development of a legal science.
- Ensuring the protection of rights and freedoms of a human and a citizen in the specific field.
- Preparation of propositions in improvement of legislation, its systematization, development of projects of legal acts and international agreements of Ukraine in legal affairs, conducting a legal expertise of projects of legal acts, state registration of legal acts, maintaining the Unified state registry of such acts.
- Planning by the proposals of other central bodies of executive power of legislative proceedings and actions in adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European UnionEuropean UnionThe European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
. - Coordination of actions in implementation of the National program in adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union.
- Organization of implementing the decisions of judges and other authorities (officials) according to the laws, working with human resources, expert support of justice.
- Organization of notary performance and the authorities in registration of acts of civil status.
- Developing a legal informativeness and forming in citizens a legal outlook.
- Fulfilling an international legal cooperation.
Structures
The ministry consists of the central body of ministry headed by its leadership composed of a ministerMinister (government)
A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....
, his/hers first deputy, and other deputies in assistance to the minister. To the central body of ministry also belongs the government official in affairs of the European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is a supra-national court established by the European Convention on Human Rights and hears complaints that a contracting state has violated the human rights enshrined in the Convention and its protocols. Complaints can be brought by individuals or...
, who represents Ukraine in the mentioned international institution. There are several state departments and agencies that are assigned to the leadership of the ministry, each deputy of which is also assigned a territorial representation of local authorities of justice.
- State Archive Service of Ukraine
- State Executive Service of Ukraine
- State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine
- State Registration Service of Ukraine
- State Service of Ukraine for protection of personal data
List of Ministers of Justice and historical outlook
| Name of parent agency | Chairman of government | Name of minister | Term of Office | |
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| General Secretariat of Ukraine General Secretariat of Ukraine The General Secretariat of Ukraine was the main executive institution of the Ukrainian People's Republic from June 28, 1917 to January 22, 1918.It closely related to the today's Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine... |
Volodymyr Vynnychenko Volodymyr Vynnychenko Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko - Biography :Vynnychenko was born in Yelisavetgrad , the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire in a family of peasants. His father Kyrylo Vasyliovych Vynnychenko earlier in his life was a peasant-serf has moved from a village to the city of Yelisavetgrad where... |
Valentyn Sadovsky | June 28, 1917 | August 13, 1917 |
| Mykhailo Tkachenko | November 12, 1917 | January 23, 1918 | ||
| Council of People's Ministers Council of People's Ministers The Council of People's Ministers was the main executive institution of the Ukrainian People's Republic. It was reorganized out of the General Secretariat of Ukraine upon the proclamation of the 4th Universal and Independence on January 25, 1918. As the General Secretariat it is a preceding... |
January 23, 1918 | February 1918 | ||
| Vsevolod Holubovych Vsevolod Holubovych Vsevolod Oleksandrovych Holubovych was born in the village of Poltavka, Balta uyezd, Podolie Governorate. Holubovych was the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic from January to March.-Early period:... |
Serhiy Shelukhin | February 1918 | April 29, 1918 | |
| Council of Ministers (1918) | Fyodor Lizogub | Mikhail Chubinsky | April 30, 1918 | August 24, 1918 |
| Aleksei Romanov | August 1918 | October 25, 1918 | ||
| Andrei Vyazlov | October 25, 1918 | November 14, 1918 | ||
| Sergei Gerbel | Viktor Reinbot | November 14, 1918 | December 14, 1918 | |
| Council of People's Ministers Council of People's Ministers The Council of People's Ministers was the main executive institution of the Ukrainian People's Republic. It was reorganized out of the General Secretariat of Ukraine upon the proclamation of the 4th Universal and Independence on January 25, 1918. As the General Secretariat it is a preceding... |
Volodymyr Chekhivsky | Serhiy Shelukhin (acting) | ||
| Viktor Prykhodko | ||||
| Hryhoriy Syrotenko | February 13, 1919 | |||
| Serhiy Ostapenko Serhiy Ostapenko Serhiy Ostapenko was economist, statesman, and political activist of Ukraine. In the beginning of 1919 he directed the Council of People's Ministers of Ukrainian People's Republic .-Early years:... |
Dmytro Markovych | February 13, 1919 | April 9, 1919 | |
| Borys Martos | Andriy Livytskyi Andriy Livytskyi Andriy Mykolaiovych Livytskyi — died January 17, 1954) was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and lawyer.He was president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile and the Chairman of the Directory prior to reforming that office into the presidential.-Biography:Andriy Livytskyi was... |
April 9, 1919 | August 5, 1921 | |
| Isaak Mazepa Isaak Mazepa Isaak Prokhorovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian politician.-References:... |
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| Vyacheslav Prokopovych Vyacheslav Prokopovych Vyacheslav Prokopovych was a Ukrainian politician and historian.Since 1905, he was a politician of the Ukrainian Democratic-Radical Party , established in Kiev. At the end of World War I, he was a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists and Central Rada... |
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| Andriy Livytskyi Andriy Livytskyi Andriy Mykolaiovych Livytskyi — died January 17, 1954) was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and lawyer.He was president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile and the Chairman of the Directory prior to reforming that office into the presidential.-Biography:Andriy Livytskyi was... |
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| Vyacheslav Prokopovych Vyacheslav Prokopovych Vyacheslav Prokopovych was a Ukrainian politician and historian.Since 1905, he was a politician of the Ukrainian Democratic-Radical Party , established in Kiev. At the end of World War I, he was a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists and Central Rada... |
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| Temporary Peasant-Worker's Government | Georgy Pyatakov Georgy Pyatakov Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader during the Russian Revolution, and member of the Left Opposition.Pyatakov was born August 6, 1890 in the settlement of the Mariinsky sugar factory which was owned by his father, an ethnic Russian, Leonid Timofeyevich Pyatakov.He... |
Aleksandr Khmelnitskiy | November 28, 1918 | May 1919 |
| All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee | Christian Rakovsky Christian Rakovsky Christian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist... |
Mikhail Lebedinets | May 1919 | August 1919 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Yevgeniy Tereletsky | February 20, 1920 | March 3, 1921 | |
| Sergei Buzdalin | 1921 | 1921 | ||
| Mikhail Vetoshkin | January 1922 | 1922 | ||
| Mykola Skrypnyk Mykola Skrypnyk Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk was a Ukrainian Bolshevik leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to... |
1922 | 1923 | ||
| Vlas Chubar Vlas Chubar Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician.-Early career:Chubar was born in Fedorovka, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire . He became a Marxist revolutionary early in life and joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor... |
1923 | 1927 | ||
| Vasyl Poraiko | March 5, 1927 | July 10, 1930 | ||
| Vasyl Polyakov | September 1930 | 1933 | ||
| Mykhailo Mykhailyk | July 1933 | January 1935 | ||
| Panas Lyubchenko Panas Lyubchenko Panas Petrovych Lyubchenko was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR from 1934 to 1937.-Biography:... |
Arkadiy Kiselyov-Kesler | January 1935 | August 1936 | |
| Khoma Radchenko | September 1936 | 1937 | ||
| Mykhailo Bondarenko Mykhailo Bondarenko Mykhailo Ilyich Bondarenko was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR from August to October of 1937.-Biography:... |
Khoma Radchenko | 1937 | 1937 | |
| Demian Korotchenko | Mykola Babchenko | June 1938 | 1939 | |
| Leonid Korniyets Leonid Korniyets Leonid Romanovych Korniyets was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the head of government of Ukrainian SSR from 1939 to 1944.-Biography:... |
1939 | 1944 | ||
| Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964... |
1944 | 1946 | ||
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | 1946 | March 1947 | ||
| Demian Korotchenko | Denis Panasyuk | March 1947 | January 1953 | |
| Fedir Hlukh | January 1953 | 1954 | ||
| Nykyfor Kalchenko | 1954 | March 1957 | ||
| Kateryna Zghurska | March 1957 | 1961 | ||
| Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi | 1961 | April 1963 | ||
| Volodymyr Zaichuk | 1970 | 1972 | ||
| Oleksandr Lyashko | 1972 | 1987 | ||
| Vitaliy Masol Vitaliy Masol Vitaliy Andriiovych Masol was confirmed as Prime Minister of Ukraine on June 16, 1994.President Kravchuk's appointment of an advocate of state-controlled economy as prime minister was seen as a pre-election concession to the communist-dominated parliament. Force into resignation 1990 by the... |
1987 | 1990 | ||
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Vitold Fokin Vitold Fokin Vitold Pavlovych Fokin , the son of a teacher, was appointed first deputy prime minister of Ukraine in November 1991.... |
Vitaliy Boiko | August 2, 1990 | March 20, 1992 |
| Volodymyr Kampo | March 20, 1992 | April 21, 1992 | ||
| Leonid Kuchma Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994, to 23 January 2005. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent Leonid Kravchuk... |
Vasyl Onopenko | October 27, 1992 | June 16, 1994 | |
| Vitaliy Masol Vitaliy Masol Vitaliy Andriiovych Masol was confirmed as Prime Minister of Ukraine on June 16, 1994.President Kravchuk's appointment of an advocate of state-controlled economy as prime minister was seen as a pre-election concession to the communist-dominated parliament. Force into resignation 1990 by the... |
June 16, 1994 | August 7, 1995 | ||
| Yevhen Marchuk Yevhen Marchuk Yevhen K. Marchuk , born on January 28, 1941, is a Ukrainian statesman and politician. During his career, Marchuk was prime minister of Ukraine, presidential candidate, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Defense Minister of Ukraine. Marchuk is affiliated with the Ukrainian... |
Serhiy Holovatyi | September 27, 1995 | May 28, 1996 | |
| Pavlo Lazarenko Pavlo Lazarenko Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko is a former Ukrainian politician and former Prime Minister who, in August 2006, was convicted and sentenced to prison in the United States for money laundering, wire fraud and extortion... |
May 28, 1996 | August 21, 1997 | ||
| Valeriy Pustovoitenko Valeriy Pustovoitenko Valery Pustovoitenko was confirmed as prime minister of Ukraine on 16 July 1997. Pustovoitenko was Ukraine's eighth prime minister. He resigned in connection with Leonid Kuchma's re-election for a new term. He is a former leader of the People's Democratic Party of Ukraine.-References:... |
Syuzanna Stanik | August 21, 1997 | December 22, 1999 | |
| Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution... |
December 22, 1999 | May 29, 2001 | ||
| Anatoliy Kinakh Anatoliy Kinakh Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh is a Ukrainian politician and honorary professor at the Mykolaiv Government Humanitarian University. Kinakh is a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 6th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament... |
May 29, 2001 | May 7, 2002 | ||
| Oleksandr Lavrynovych Oleksandr Lavrynovych Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lavrynovych is a Ukrainian politician and deputy in the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.... |
May 7, 2002 | November 21, 2002 | ||
| Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002... |
November 21, 2002 | February 4, 2005 | ||
| Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful... |
Roman Zvarych | February 4, 2005 | September 27, 2005 | |
| Yuriy Yekhanurov Yuriy Yekhanurov Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov is a Ukrainian politician who was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2005 to 2006 and Minister of Defense in from 2007 to 2009... |
Serhiy Holovatyi | September 27, 2005 | August 4, 2006 | |
| Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002... |
Roman Zvarych | August 4, 2006 | November 1, 2006 | |
| Oleksandr Lavrynovych Oleksandr Lavrynovych Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lavrynovych is a Ukrainian politician and deputy in the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.... |
November 1, 2006 | December 18, 2007 | ||
| Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful... |
Mykola Onishchuk | December 18, 2007 | March 11, 2010 | |
| Mykola Azarov Mykola Azarov Mykola Yanovych Azarov ; born Nikolai Yanovich Pakhlo on 17 December 1947, is a Ukrainian politician who has been the Prime Minister of Ukraine since 11 March 2010. He was the First Vice Prime Minister and Finance Minister from 2002 to 2005 and again from 2006 to 2007, and he also served as acting... |
Oleksandr Lavrynovych Oleksandr Lavrynovych Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lavrynovych is a Ukrainian politician and deputy in the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.... |
March 11, 2010 | present |
- At the end of 1917 the Russian Social Democratic Labour PartyRussian Social Democratic Labour PartyThe Russian Social Democratic Labour Party , also known as Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or Russian Social Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party...
established an oppositional government in KharkivKharkivKharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
, the People's SecretariatPeople's SecretariatThe People's Secretariat of Ukraine was the executive body of the Provisional Central Executive Committee of Soviets in Ukraine. It was formed in Kharkiv on December 30, 1917 by the Russian and other local Bolsheviks as the Ukrainian Soviet government and the opposition to the Central Rada and the...
, a respective secretariat of which was headed by Vladimir Lyuksemburg. Some other secretaries of that government Yevgeniy Tereletsky and Mykola Skrypnyk later also have served as ministers of justice. - On November 28, 1919 the newly established Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine created a new government, the Temporary Workers-Peasants Government, again in the opposition to the acting government in Ukraine. On January 29, 1919 it was replaced with the People's Commissariat of the Ukrainian SSRUkrainian SSRThe Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...
. - With securing of the Soviet power in UkraineUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
after 1920 and until 1936 the People's Commissar of Justice (Narkom) performed also the role of the Prosecutor General of the republicProsecutor General of UkraineThe Prosecutor General of Ukraine heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine...
. - Yevgeniy Tereletsky as the former People's Commissar of Justice in 1923 was an ambassadorAmbassadorAn ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
representing the Ukrainian SSRUkrainian SSRThe Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...
in the Baltic statesBaltic statesThe term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...
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See also
- European Court of Human RightsEuropean Court of Human RightsThe European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is a supra-national court established by the European Convention on Human Rights and hears complaints that a contracting state has violated the human rights enshrined in the Convention and its protocols. Complaints can be brought by individuals or...
- Cabinet of Ministers of UkraineCabinet of Ministers of UkraineThe Cabinet of Ukraine is the highest body of state executive power in Ukraine also referred to as the Government of Ukraine...
- Justice ministry
- Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)The Ministry of Justice of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. It was formerly known as the People's Commissariat for Justice...
- Prosecutor General of UkraineProsecutor General of UkraineThe Prosecutor General of Ukraine heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine...
, Supreme Council of Justice (Ukraine)Supreme Council of Justice (Ukraine)The Supreme Council of Justice is an advising judicial and control-revisionary government body in Ukraine. The Supreme Council of Justice of Ukraine advises on the appointment or release of certain judges, examines the cases of infringements, and executes disciplinary proceedings involving judges...