In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vasilyevich and the family name is Shevchuk.
Yevgeny Shevchuk
Евгений Шевчук
Shevchuk in 2012
2nd President of Transnistria
In office 30 December 2011 – 16 December 2016
Prime Minister
Pyotr Stepanov Tatiana Turanskaya Maija Parnas (Acting) Tatiana Turanskaya Maija Parnas (Acting) Pavel Prokudin
Preceded by
Igor Smirnov
Succeeded by
Vadim Krasnoselsky
Speaker of the Supreme Council
In office 28 December 2005 – 8 July 2009
President
Igor Smirnov
Preceded by
Grigore Mărăcuță
Succeeded by
Anatoliy Kaminski
Personal details
Born
Yevgeny Vasylovych Shevchuk
(1968-06-19) 19 June 1968 (age 55) Rîbnița, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
Political party
Independent
Spouse
Nina Shtanski
Alma mater
Transnistria State University All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade Ukrainian Agricultural Academy
Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk (Russian: Евге́ний Васи́льевич Шевчу́к, tr. Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Shevchuk, Ukrainian: Євге́н Васи́льович Шевчу́к, tr. Yevhen Vasylovych Shevchuk, Romanian: Evgheni Șevciuc, Moldovan Cyrillic: Евгени Васильевичь Шевчюк; born 19 June 1968) is a Transnistrian former politician who served as the 2nd President of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, better known as 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.[1]
In 2017, Shevchuk fled to Moldova while being pursued on criminal charges. In December 2018, he was sentenced in absentia to 16 years in prison and a fine of about 36 million US dollars.[2]
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^"Бывший лидер Приднестровья приговорен к 16 годам лишения свободы // ВЕСТИ.МД / все новости дня". VESTI.MD (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-08-23.
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signed the 1997 Moscow Memorandum, devised by the Prime Minister of Russia Yevgeny Primakov and supported by Ukraine and the Organization for Security and...
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Russia." In early 2012, he was dismissed by the incumbent president YevgenyShevchuk and a criminal investigation was launched against him, alleging abuse...
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