Anatolii Mohyliov
Anatolii Volodymyrovych Mohyliov is a Ukrainian politician. He served as the prime minister of Crimea and the Ukrainian minister of Internal Affairs.
Politics
Mohyliov graduated school in Slovyansk in 1972 and the Slovyansk Pedagogical Institute in 1977 obtaining diploma as a teacher of physics. In 1977–79 he worked as a teacher of physics in a village of Tsvitochne before being drafted to the army. In 1979–81 Mohyliov served in the air defense service for the Leningrad Military District. After demobilization, he for a brief stint returned to be a teacher in Slovyansk, before changing occupation to law enforcement in 1982.In 1995–2000 Mohyliov served as a chief militsiya officer for the city of Artemivsk and then until 2005 for the city of Makiivka. In 2007, he served as deputy interior minister and chief of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's main office in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Mohyliov headed the Crimean campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych during the 2010 presidential election campaign.
On 16 March 2010 Mustafa Dzhemilev reminded the Minister of Internal Affairs of Anatolii Mohyliov official xenophobic statements in the local press against the Crimean Tatar population in the past for which the Mejlis has already prepared a petition to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. If they fail to condemn Mohyliov's statements, the Mejlis will consider filing in a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group has criticized his period as Interior Minister.
A resolution on the dismissal of Mohyliov did not receive enough votes in the Verkhovna Rada on 15 June 2010.
On 7 November 2011 President Viktor Yanukovych nominated Mohyliov as Prime Minister of Crimea. The Supreme Council of Crimea appointed him to this post the next day. Mustafa Dzhemilev described his appointment "stupid; Mohyliov is remembered for praising the Stalin-era deportations of the Crimean Tatars, as well as the shooting of unarmed people in 2007 by police under his command". Mohyliov was elected the leader of the Crimean branch of Party of Regions on 29 November 2011.
On 18 November 2012 Anatoliy Mohiliov openly stated that Militsiya of Ukraine "supports interests of the political force that currently is in power, because the power ensures stability and normal life in the country."
On February 27, 2014, he was released from the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Deputy of the Crimean Parliament Sergey Aksenov was elected to this position.