Valery Anatolyevich Lizkai

Valery Lizkai (2007)

Valeriy Litskai (also Litskai ; Russian Валерий Анатольевич Лицкай ; Romanian Valeri Liţkai ; Ukrainian Валерій Анатолійович Ліцкай / Valery Anatolijowytsch Litskai * 13. February 1949 in Kalinin , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Transnistrian politician and was from 2000 to 2008 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Transnistria .

Valery Lizkai came from Russia to today's Transnistrian capital Tiraspol as a child and finished his school days here. From 1969 to 1971 he served in the Red Army . From 1974 he studied history and translation at the Moscow Patrice Lumumba University of Friendship of Nations . From 1980 to 1982 he worked in Cuba . From 1982 to 1990 he taught at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Kishinev State University . In 1990 he moved to Tiraspol because of the increasing internal tensions in the Moldovan SSR , where he was appointed advisor to the head of government in 1991 and head of the external relations office of the recently proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic . After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, it renamed itself the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic ( Transnistria for short ) and declared its independence. Since 1994 Lițkai has headed the Transnistrian Coordination Council for the organization of conflict resolution talks with the Moldovan government . In 2000 he was appointed Transnistria's first Foreign Minister. In 2008 Lițkai came under domestic political pressure. He was accused of not having made enough efforts to build up relations between Transnistria and states outside the Commonwealth of Independent States and of being too fixated on Russia and Ukraine .