Petru Lucinschi

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Petru Lucinschi (2000)

Petru Lucinschi ( Russian Пётр Кириллович Лучинский , Pjotr ​​Kirillowitsch Lutschinski ; born January 27, 1940 in Rădulenii Vechi near Florești ) is a Moldovan politician .

Petru Lucinschi studied history at the University of Chișinău after serving in the Soviet Army . After receiving his doctorate, he attended the party college at the Central Committee of the CPSU . From 1971 to 1976 he was secretary of the Communist Party of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic . From 1978 he worked in the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow , from 1986 a member of the Supreme Soviet and later a member of the People's Deputies Congress . Mikhail Gorbachev appointed him as a supporter of perestroika in 1990 to the Central Committee Secretariat and the Politburo .

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , he returned to Moldova and became a member of parliament, and later also President of Parliament. He ran as an independent candidate in the 1996 presidential election. In the runoff election, he was supported by the games on the left. After the victory, he was sworn in on January 15, 1997 as the successor to Mircea Ion Snegur in the office of President of the Republic of Moldova. In 2001 he was succeeded by Vladimir Voronin .

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