Mykola Malomuzh

Mykola Hryhorovych Malomuzh (born September 23, 1955, in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician. Malomuzh served as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (2005–2010), General of the army of Ukraine (2008-2010) and was Adviser to the President of Ukraine (2010–2014).

In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election Malomuzh received 0.13% of the vote.

Early life Malomuzh was born on 23 September 1955 in the village of Skalyvatka, which was part of the Zvenyhorodka Raion in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. After graduating from secondary school, he joined the Soviet Army and was stationed in a uchebka (training camp) in Moscow that was specifically designed to train to protect the Supreme commander-in-chief's headquarters in the event of a nuclear war. He returned to Ukraine in 1975, going to Zvenyhorodka and then Kyiv, where in 1982 he received a degree in law with honors from the University of Kyiv. During his time in this position, the Verkhovna Rada established the law "On the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine" that regulated the activity of foreign intelligence. Also, the incident of MV Faina happened in 2008, where Somali pirates captured the cargo ship with 21 of its crew.