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Yevgeny Shevchuk

Yevgeny Shevchuk
Yevgeny Shevchuk 2016.jpg
Shevchuk in 2016
President of Transnistria
In office
30 December 2011 – 16 December 2016
Prime Minister Pyotr Stepanov
Tatiana Turanskaya
Maija Parnas (Acting)
Tatiana Turanskaya
Maija Parnas (Acting)
Pavel Prokudin
Preceded by Andrey Manoylov (Acting)
Succeeded by Vadim Krasnoselsky
Speaker of Parliament
In office
28 December 2005 – 8 July 2009
President Igor Smirnov
Preceded by Grigore Mărăcuţă
Succeeded by Anatoliy Kaminski
Personal details
Born Yevgeny Vasylovych Shevchuk
(1968-06-19) 19 June 1968 (age 48)
Rybnitsa, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Rîbniţa, Moldova)
Political party Independent
Spouse(s) Nina Shtanski
Alma mater Transnistria State University
All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade
Ukrainian Agricultural Academy
Religion Eastern Orthodoxy

Yevgeny Vasylyevich Shevchuk (Russian: Евге́ний Васи́льевич Шевчу́к, tr. Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Shevchuk, Ukrainian: Євге́н Васи́льович Шевчу́к, tr. Yevhen Vasylovych Shevchuk, Moldovan Cyrillic: Евгений Васильевичи Шевчук, Romanian: Evgheni Vasilievici Șevciuk; born 19 June 1968) is a former President of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, better known as Transnistria. He was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Transnistria from 2000 until his election as president in 2011. Furthermore, he was speaker of Pridnestrovian Supreme Soviet from 2005 to 2009, and the leader of the opposition party Renewal until 2010. Shevchuk is an ethnic Ukrainian and a citizen of both Transnistria and Russia.

Yevgeny was born in Rybnitsa, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Rîbniţa, Transnistria, Moldova). He is a lawyer who has worked in government and private business. His biography profile describes him as "social democratic technocrat with a European outlook, and a man of profound democratic beliefs".


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