Grigory Stepanovich Marakuza

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Grigori Marakuza (2012)

Grigori Stepanowitsch Marakuza ( Russian Григорий Степанович Маракуца ; Romanian Grigore Mărăcuță ; born October 15, 1942 in Teja near Grigoriopol , Moldovan SSR ) is a Transnistrian politician and was speaker of parliament from 1991 to 2005.

He played an important role in his country's declaration of independence and stood in the first presidential elections in Transnistria in 1991 , in which, however, he was defeated by the later President Igor Smirnov .

life and career

Marakuza was born in 1942 to a Moldovan (Romanian) family in Teja , near Grigoriopol . He went to school in Parkany and after graduating in 1960 worked briefly in Kazakhstan . At the Agricultural Institute in Zelinograd (today Nur-Sultan) he graduated in 1968 as an electrical engineer. Back in his Moldovan homeland, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and soon worked as a trainer in Kamenka district and later became the first secretary of this district.

When the Soviet Union was about to collapse in 1990, the Moldovan SSR tried to achieve state independence. In the meantime, politics there was dominated by nationalist forces, and the unification of Moldova with Romania was also a possibility. In the Russophone part of the country east of the Dniester , people saw their own rights as threatened and then split off from the rest of Moldova as the Transnistrian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic . Initially, Transnistria tried to remain in the Soviet Union as an independent Soviet republic . Marakuza was one of the first members of the new Transnistrian parliament . However, the new Transnistrian Soviet Republic was not recognized by the central government in Moscow .

When the Soviet Union was finally dissolved at the end of 1991 and Moldova became independent, Transnistria also declared itself independent. However, Moldova continued to claim the region. In the first election in Transnistria in 1991 , Marakuza was one of the presidential candidates, but was clearly defeated by Igor Smirnov . He then joined the Smirnov party and was speaker of the Transnistrian parliament from November 5, 1991 to December 21, 2005. He eventually had to hand over this post to Yevgeny Shevchuk .

On March 5, 2013, he became chairman of the "Council of Elders" in Transnistria.

In August 2013 Marakuza was with 334 other people, including Caroline Cox , Vladimir Yastrebchak , Albano Carrisi and Montserrat Caballé to persona non grata in Azerbaijan stated. The Azerbaijani government justified this step with an “unauthorized visit” by the persons concerned in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ МАРАКУЦА Григорий Степанович ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: vspmr.org
  2. ↑ James Hughes: Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union. F. Cass, 2002, ISBN 9780714682105 , p. 112. Limited preview in Google Book Search
  3. ↑ Указ Президента ПМР №86 «образовании при Президенте Приднестровской Молдавской Рес». In: president.gospmr.ru. March 5, 2013, accessed January 3, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Константин Москович объявлен в Азербайджане персоной нон грата. (No longer available online.) In: enews.md. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / enews.md
personal data
SURNAME Marakuza, Grigory Stepanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Маракуца, Григорий Степанович (Russian); Mărăcuță, Grigore (Romanian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transnistrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Teja , Moldovan SSR