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Igor Dodon
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Igor Dodon is a Moldovan politician, economist, and lecturer born on February 18, 1975, in Sadova. He holds citizenship in Moldova and the Soviet Union. Dodon has served as the President of Moldova and was a candidate in the 2016 Moldovan presidential election. His political affiliations have included the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, and independent status.
He received his education at the State Agrarian University of Moldova and the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova. Dodon is a male who speaks Romanian, Russian, French, and English, with Romanian as his native language. He follows the Eastern Orthodox religion.
Dodon is married to Galina Dodon and has three children. He has received the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh and the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre. His official website is dodon.md.
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- 3
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications
· 2004 · cited 10,558x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,660x
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells
· 2007 · cited 8,649x
- Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials
· 2011 · cited 6,858x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,192x
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Sadova
- Spouse
- Galina Dodon
- Occupation
- lecturer
- Educated at
- Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova
- Political party
- Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Romanian
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Official website
- dodon.md
- Image
- Igor DODON, Fracțiunea parlamentară a Partidului Socialiștilor din Republica Moldova.jpg
- Height
- 1.83
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of birth
- 1975-02-18
- name in native language
- Igor Dodon
- Commons category
- Igor Dodon
- candidacy in election
- 2016 Moldovan presidential election
- social media followers
- 39400
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Encyclopedic overview
Igor Dodon ( Romanian: [ˈiɡor doˈdon]; born 18 February 1975) is a Moldovan politician and executive diplomat who served as the 5th president of Moldova from 2016 to 2020. He currently serves as the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova since 2024. He served as Minister of Economy and Trade in the governments of Vasile Tarlev and Zinaida Greceanîi from September 2006 to September 2009 and was a member of the Parliament of Moldova from 2009 to 2016. He lost his bid for re-election in 2020 to Maia Sandu, whom he had defeated four years earlier in the 2016 Moldovan presidential election.
On 24 May 2022, Dodon was arrested by the Moldovan authorities on charges of passive corruption, illegal financing of a political party by a criminal organization, illicit enrichment, and high treason against Moldova through receiving funds from fugitive Moldovan politician Vladimir Plahotniuc in order to intercede on Plahotniuc's behalf regarding criminal cases filed in Russia. He was placed under house arrest on 26 May in order to allow prosecutors to investigate the allegations further. The United States Department of the Treasury has also accused Dodon of corruption and conspiring with Russia through his political aides to interfere with the Moldovan elections and rig the media in his favour. He was released from house arrest on 18 November 2022 pending a court trial on all charges.
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