KYIV. Nov 3 (Interfax) - Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych has dismissed Oleksandr Medvedko as prosecutor general.
The relevant decree was posted on the president's official website on Wednesday.
Yanukovych has already submitted to parliament deputy prosecutor general Viktor Pshonka's nomination to be Medvedko's replacement.
Medvedko's five-year tenure as prosecutor general expired early this month. His nomination was upheld by parliament on November 3, 2005. It was endorsed by a presidential decree on November 4.
Medvedko, 55, began his career as a prosecutor in 1980. From 1992-99, he was a district prosecutor in Donetsk region, from 1999-2001 held the post of the Donetsk regional oversight department for pre-trial procedures and from 2001-02 was first deputy prosecutor of the Luhansk region.
Medvedko held the post of deputy prosecutor general from December 2004 until being appointed prosecutor general.