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Also known as Evgeni Shevchuk, Evgeniy Shevchuk, Evgeny Shevchuk, Yevgeni Shevchuk, Yevgeniy Shevchuk, Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk

President of Transnistria

Key facts

Prime minister
Pyotr Stepanov , Tatiana Turanskaya , Maija Parnas (Acting), Tatiana Turanskaya , Maija Parnas (Acting), Pavel Prokudin
Preceded by
Igor Smirnov
Succeeded by
Vadim Krasnoselsky
President
Igor Smirnov
Born
Yevgeny Vasylovych Shevchuk , ( 1968-06-19 ) 19 June 1968 (age 57) , Rîbnița , Moldavian SSR , Soviet Union (now Moldova )
Party
Independent
Spouse
Nina Shtanski
Alma mater
Transnistria State University , All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade , Ukrainian Agricultural Academy

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Shevchuk
Gender
male
Citizenship
Transnistria
Place of birth
Rîbnița
Occupation
economist
Political party
Obnovlenie
Languages spoken
Russian
Sport
chess
Image
Yevgeny Shevchuk (mid.gospmr.org).jpg
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Commons category
Yevgeny Shevchuk
date of birth
1968-06-19
name in native language
Евгений Васильевич Шевчук
ethnic group
Ukrainians
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Encyclopedic overview

Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk (born 19 June 1968) is a Transnistrian former politician who served as the second President of Transnistria, from 2011 to 2016.

He was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Transnistria from 2000 until his election as president in 2011. Furthermore, he was speaker of Pridnestrovian Supreme Soviet from 2005 to 2009 and the leader of the political party Obnovlenie until 2010. Shevchuk is an ethnic Ukrainian and a citizen of both Transnistria and Russia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yevgeny Shevchuk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.