Malinkovich Vladimir Dmitrievich

Malinkovich Vladimir Dmitrievich

Genus. in 1940 in Sumy. After graduating from school, he worked as a turner for two years at the Kinal plant in Kiev, then entered Leningrad University, the Faculty of Law, where he was active in social activities. In 1961, he was expelled from his second year at the university, formally for violating public order, but actually for active student activities. In 1967 he graduated from the Kiev Medical Institute and was drafted into the armed forces as a military doctor. He wrote a letter to the USSR Minister of Defense A. Grechko regarding the six-day war, in which he declared his own reluctance to serve in the army. In 1968, in front of a formation of military personnel, he expressed his attitude towards the entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. During this month he was in a special department of the Kyiv Military District. In 1969, he was subjected to an officer's court of honor and expelled from the army. Since 1970, he received the position of a local doctor, later a radiologist at the Kiev Institute of Endocrinology. In 1973 he defended his Ph.D. thesis. Since the early 1970s. joined human rights activities, sent letters of protest, transmitted information for the dissident publication “Chronicle of Current Events”, distributed this publication, took part in rallies in Babi Yar and near the monument to T. Shevchenko.
From 1975 to 1979 was constantly persecuted by the authorities: provocations, warnings, secret searches, detentions. In October 1978 joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Under threat of arrest 01/01/1980 emigrated with his family to Germany. Lived in Munich, worked as a senior editor of the Russian service of Radio Liberty (Munich), head of a number of programs ("USSR and the National Question", "After the Empire", "Barometer"), was one of the main political observers, in 1980-1992. worked as editor-in-chief of the magazine “Forum” (Munich, publishing house “Suchasnist”). He headed the European representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, was elected co-chairman of the Democratic Association of Political Emigrants from the USSR, and a founding member of the International Helsinki Association. In 1992 he returned to Kyiv, in 1995-1997. -Director of the Institute of Integration Problems at the Kiev Center for Political Research and Conflictology. Since April 2001 - Chairman of the Commission for the Promotion of Democratization and Development of Civil Society under the President of Ukraine, worked as Secretary of the Commission for the Preparation of the Constitutional Reform.
Director of the Ukrainian branch of the International Institute for Humanitarian and Political Studies (since September 1998). Candidate of Medical Sciences. In 2009 emigrated again.