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Peter Dickinson: Remembering Yevhen Marchuk

By Peter Dickinson.

Published Aug. 11, 2021. Updated Aug. 11 at 4:22 am

In this file photo Yevhen Marchuk, former prime minister, defense minister, army general, and secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, holds a press briefing at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center in Kyiv on March 27, 2016.

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Ukrainian politician and statesman Yevhen Marchuk passed away on August 5 at the age of eighty. Marchuk was one of the country’s most prominent public figures during the early years of Ukrainian independence, founding the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) before serving as both Prime Minister and Defense Minister.