Zinaida Greceanîi
| Zinaida Greceanîi Зинаи́да Греча́ная |
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| 8th Prime Minister of Moldova | |
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In office 31 March 2008 – 14 September 2009 |
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| President |
Vladimir Voronin Mihai Ghimpu (Acting) |
| Deputy | Igor Dodon |
| Preceded by | Vasile Tarlev |
| Succeeded by | Vitalie Pîrlog (Acting) |
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| Born |
7 February 1956 Tomsk Oblast, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Political party |
Communist Party (Before 2011) Socialist Party (2011–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Alexei Greceanîi |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Moldova State University |
Zinaida Greceanîi (born 7 February 1956;Russian: Зинаида Петровна Гречаная, Zinaida Petrovna Grechanaya) is a Moldovan politician who was the Prime Minister of Moldova from 31 March 2008 to 14 September 2009. She is the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) and was previously a member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM). She was Moldova's first female Prime Minister and was the second female Communist head of government in Europe, the first having been Premier Milka Planinc of Yugoslavia.
Greceanîi was born at Tomsk Oblast in Siberia in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Her parents, Marioara Ursu (1918–1993) and Petrea Bujor (1906–1996), were deported in 1951 from Cotiujeni in the north of Moldova during the Operation North because they were Jehovah's Witnesses. Her brother died during the deportation. Zinaida Greceanîi and her parents come back in Cotiujeni only in 1968. She was baptised as Orthodox by her grandmother on mother's side.
She graduated from the Financial and Economic College in the capital Chișinău and the State University of Moldova.
Greceanîi is married to Alexei Greceanîi and has two children.
She was Deputy Minister of Finances from 2000 to 2001 and First Deputy Minister of Finances from 2001 to 2002. President Vladimir Voronin appointed her as Interim Minister of Finances on 8 February 2002 and then appointed her as Minister of Finances on 26 February 2002 as the only woman in the cabinet. After serving as Finance Minister for more than three years, she was appointed by Voronin as First Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova on 10 October 2005. In the summer, she arrived first in the 2005 Chișinău election, but they were declared invalid because of the low turnout.
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