Viktor Baloha

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Viktor Baloha
Віктор Балога
Baloha in 2012
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 December 2012[1]
Emergency Minister of Ukraine
In office 12 November 2010 – 20 November 2012[2]
President	Viktor Yanukovych
Prime Minister	Mykola Azarov
Preceded by	Mykhaylo Bolotskykh
Succeeded by	Ministry of Defense[3]
Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine
In office 15 September 2006 – 19 May 2009
President	Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by	Oleh Rybachuk
Succeeded by	Vira Ulianchenko
Emergency Minister of Ukraine
In office 27 September 2005 – 5 October 2006
President	Viktor Yushchenko
Prime Minister	Yuriy Yekhanurov
Preceded by	Davyd Zhvania
Succeeded by	Nestor Shufrych
Governor of Zakarpattia
In office 4 February 2005 – 27 September 2005
President	Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by	Ivan Rizak
Succeeded by	Oleh Gavashi
In office 5 May 1999 – 1 June 2001
Preceded by	Sergiy Ustych
Succeeded by	Hennadiy Moskal
Mayor of Mukachevo
In office 10 April 1998 – 5 May 1999
Preceded by	Vasil Yitio
Succeeded by	Yosyp Kull
Personal details
Born	(1963-06-15) 15 June 1963 (age 61) Zavydovo, Мukachevo District, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	United Centre (2008–present) Our Ukraine (2007–2008) Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) (1997–2000)
Alma mater	Lviv Commercial Academy (The Lviv institute of trade and economics)
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Viktor Ivanovych Baloha (Ukrainian: Віктор Іванович Балога, born 15 June 1963) is a Ukrainian politician and the former emergency situations minister.^[4][2]