About Yuriy Meshkov
Yuri Aleksandrovich Meshkov (Ukrainian: Юрій Олександрович Мєшков, Yuriy Oleksandrovych Meshkov, Russian: Юрий Александрович Мешков; 25 October 1945 – 29 September 2019) was a Ukrainian politician and leader of the pro-Russian movement in Crimea. He served as the only President of Crimea from 1994 to 1995. However, eleven days after his return to Crimea in 2011, which was his first visit since 1995, Meshkov was deported from Ukraine on 13 July 2011, with a five-year restriction on his entry. == Biography == Yuri Meshkov was born on 25 October 1945 in Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine). His mother was Ukrainian-born, and his father was a native Kuban Cossack Russian. He grew up in Simferopol, where he completed his high school education. When he was about eight years old, Crimea was officially transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. According to an opinion column in the New York Times Meshkov served in the Border Guard division of the KGB. In 1967 (or 1977, as some sources indicate), he graduated from the Law School of Moscow State University. From 1982 to 1985, he worked as a detective and later became the head detective in the District Attorney's office. Between 1985 and 1990, he spent time on the science-research yacht Skif. During this period, he also worked as a private judicial consultant.
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