Mykola Selivon () is a Ukrainian jurist, judge, diplomat and former chairman of the

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. Selivon is from

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. His working career he started as a techinicain at a military unit stationed in

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. During that time he also served his obligatory military duty. In 1968 Selivon enrolled at the Kiev University. In 1973 he graduated the Kiev University Law Faculty and after a brief

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-like training at the NANU Institute of State and Law, until 1979 worked as a junior researcher at the institute. In 1979–1996 Selivan worked at the legal department of the Office of Minister of the Council of Ministers. In 1996–2005 he was a judge of the

. In 2005 at the

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Selivon was administering an oath from the

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. In 2005–2006 as a professor he was lecturing at the

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. In 2006–2010 he served as the ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan.

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External links

Mykola Selivon
Constitutional Court of Ukraine website.
Mykola Selivon
at the Official Ukraine Today

National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine 1946 births Living people People from Chernihiv Oblast University of Kyiv, Law faculty alumni Koretsky Institute of State and Law alumni Koretsky Institute of State and Law research associates Ukrainian judges Constitutional Court of Ukraine judges Ukrainian presidential inaugurations Academic staff of the National Academy of State Administration Ambassadors of Ukraine to Kazakhstan {{Ukraine-law-bio-stub