KIEV, Feb. 3 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a decree appointing Ihor Kalinin as chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the presidential press service reported on Friday.

Under another decree, Kalinin was dismissed as head of the State Guard Department.

The head of state also canceled his decree appointing Volodymyr Rokytsky as acting SBU head.

Kalinin was born in Mytishchi district, Moscow region, on December 28, 1959. In 1981, he graduated from the Moscow Higher Command School of Road and Engineering Forces. He is a candidate of military sciences under the specialty "intelligence and foreign armies."