Hennadiy Moskal

Gennady Moskal graduated from the Chernivtsi Railway College,[4] then in

• 1981 – Kyiv Higher School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs named after Dzerzhinsky[4]
• 1984 – the Academy of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in Moscow[4]

In 1975, Moskal started working as detective of Soviet police (Militsiya) in Chernivtsi, where he advanced from inspector to Militsiya Lieutenant General. During working in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs he was the Deputy Chief of Militsiya in Chernivtsi oblast.

• 1978–1992 – Chief of criminal investigation department of Chernivtsi Oblast militsiya (with breaks)
  • 1983–1986 – Deputy chief of militsiya in the Lenin district of Chernivtsi
• 1992–1995 – Chief of criminal militsiya in Chernivtsi Oblast
• 1995–1997 – Chief of militsiya in Zakarpattia Oblast.[4]
• 1997–2000 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief of militsiya in Crimea[4]
• 2000–2001 – Internal Affairs, Chief of militsiya in Dnipropetrovsk region[4]
• June 2001 – September 2002 – Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast[4]
• 2002–2005 – Chairman of State Committee on Nationalities and Migration
• February 2005 – November 2005 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief of criminal militsiya[4]
• November 2005 – April 2006 – Governor of Luhansk region[4]
• 2006 – the Permanent Representative of President of Ukraine in Crimea[4]
• 9 January 2007 – appointed the Deputy Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) by Presidential Decree.[4]
• April 2007 – May 2007 – Deputy Secretary of RNBU

In autumn 2007, Gennady Moskal was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine from Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (under No. 41). In Verkhovna Rada, he performed duties of the 1st Deputy Chairman of the Committee to combat organized crime and corruption.[4] At the time of elections in 2007, Moskal was the president of Kyiv law firm "Protection".[14]

On 19 August 2009, Gennady Moskal was re-appointed the Chief of the Internal Affairs Department in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, yet in order to keep the parliamentary mandate, he resigned on 15 December 2009; on 16 December 2009, he was reinstated in the former position by the government. On 3 February 2010, President Viktor Yushchenko sent an inquiry to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the legality of coordinating both positions by Moskal; after that, Moskal has resigned in Crimea.

Moskal joined the party Front of Changes in December 2011.[3] In 2012 he was re-elected into parliament on the party list of Fatherland.[15] On 15 June 2013 his Front for Change (party) merged into Fatherland.[16] On 25 August 2014 Moskal was expelled from Fatherland because he had supported, and campaigned for, Petro Poroshenko in the 25 May 2014 Ukrainian presidential election and thus not Fatherland's presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko.[17] From then till June 2019 Moskal was a member of the party Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[18]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Moskal did not get elected (as an independent candidate) after losing in single-seat constituency 106 in Severodonetsk, with 11.99% of the vote.[19]

On 18 September 2014 President Petro Poroshenko appointed Moskal Luhansk Oblast Governor.[8] At that time Luhansk Oblast was one of the front-lines of the War in Donbass.[7]