Yevgeny Shevchuk | |
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Shevchuk in 2016
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President of Transnistria | |
In office 30 December 2011 – 16 December 2016 |
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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 |
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President | Igor Smirnov |
Preceded by | Grigore Mărăcuţă |
Succeeded by | Anatoliy Kaminski |
Personal details | |
Born |
Yevgeny Vasylovych Shevchuk 19 June 1968 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".