Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk

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Yevgeny Shevchuk

Yevgeny Shevchuk ( Russian Евгений Васильевич Шевчук , Romanian Evgheni Şevciuk , Ukrainian Євген Васильович Шевчук Yevhen Shevchuk Wassyljowytsch * 19 June 1968 in Rybnitsa ) is a Transnistrian politician and was from 2011 to 2016 president of the internationally unrecognized Transnistria . In the 2011 presidential election, he emerged victorious from the runoff election, and in 2016 he lost to his challenger Wadim Krasnoselski .

life and career

Yevgeny Shevchuk was born in 1968 in the Soviet Rybnitsa into a Ukrainian family. He studied in Tiraspol at the Transnistrian State University as well as in Kiev and Moscow . In 1998 he worked for the Transnistrian company Sheriff , from 2000 for the Agroprombank , which also belongs to the Sheriff concern . The trained lawyer has been a member of the Transnistrian parliament since 2000. From 2005 to 2009 he was parliamentary speaker and replaced Grigori Marakuza, who had been in office since 1991 . In 2009 Shevchuk resigned and was in turn replaced by Anatoly Kaminsky . According to his own statements, he resigned from office in protest against a planned constitutional amendment. In the 2011 presidential elections , Shevchuk ran as an independent candidate against the then incumbent President Igor Smirnov and against parliamentary speaker Anatoly Kaminsky. Surprisingly, President Igor Smirnov ended up only in third place, which is why there was a runoff between Shevchuk and Kaminsky. Shevchuk won the runoff election very clearly with 76.4% of the vote, so that he was sworn in as the new president on December 30, 2011.

Shevchuk was repeatedly praised by Western sources for his commitment to democracy and referred to as a reformer. During his presidency, Transnistria was to be recognized internationally as an independent country. He also advocated close cooperation with the Russian Federation.

Shevchuk is also a Russian citizen.

After the political upheaval and the beginning of the war in Ukraine since 2014 , Shevchuk affirmed that Transnistria would continue to stand on the side of Russia. During his presidency it became known that he was in a relationship with his then Foreign Minister Nina Schtanski . The two married in September 2015 and their daughter was born in January. To avoid a conflict of interest, Shtansky resigned from her position after the wedding.

At the end of June 2017, he left the country under unexplained circumstances and at the same time was wanted by the Transnistrian authorities for alleged embezzlement of eight million US dollars.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Штаб кандидата Кремля на выборах президента Приднестровья признал поражение во втором туре , December 26, 2011. Gazeta
  2. ↑ regnum.ru ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61664.htm
  4. ↑ Common Position 2005/147 / CFSP of the Council of February 21, 2005 on the extension and amendment of Common Position 2004/179 / CFSP on restrictive measures against the leadership of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova
  5. ↑ http://lenta.ru/lib/14164168/
  6. ↑ Who rocked the boat? , Novaya Gazeta, June 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Shevchuk, Evgeny Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Șevciuk, Evgheni; Shevchuk, Jewhen Wassyljowytsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transnistrian politician and president
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Rybnitsa , Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union