Yevgeny Shevchuk
President of Transnistria from 2011 to 2016 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk (Russian: Евге́ний Васи́льевич Шевчу́к, tr. Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Shevchuk, Ukrainian: Євге́н Васи́льович Шевчу́к, tr. Yevhen Vasylovych Shevchuk, Romanian: Evgheni Șevciuc, Moldovan Cyrillic: Евгени Васильевичь Шевчюк; born 19 June 1968) is a Transnistrian former politician who served as the 2nd President of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, better known as Transnistria, from 2011 to 2016.
Yevgeny Shevchuk | |
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Евгений Шевчук | |
2nd 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 | Igor Smirnov |
Succeeded by | Vadim Krasnoselsky |
Speaker of the Supreme Council | |
In office 28 December 2005 – 8 July 2009 | |
President | Igor Smirnov |
Preceded by | Grigore Mărăcuță |
Succeeded by | Anatoliy Kaminski |
Personal details | |
Born | Yevgeny Vasylovych Shevchuk (1968-06-19) 19 June 1968 (age 55) Rîbnița, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
Political party | Independent |
Spouse | Nina Shtanski |
Alma mater | Transnistria State University All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade Ukrainian Agricultural Academy |
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 political party Obnovlenie until 2010. Shevchuk is an ethnic Ukrainian and a citizen of both Transnistria and Russia.[1]
In 2017, Shevchuk fled to Moldova while being pursued on criminal charges. In December 2018, he was sentenced in absentia to 16 years in prison and a fine of about 36 million US dollars.[2]