518:. The OSTK candidates, mostly from Transnistria in the country's eastern periphery, were a small fraction of the body's overall membership—approximately 15 percent. In May 1990, these Transnistrian Supreme Soviet deputies were attacked and beaten by pro-independence protesters and quickly left the body for their homes in the East. Unable to affect the course of events in Chişinău, these deputies acted to establish their own Soviet republic, a republic that would remain a part of the Soviet Union and not secede with the rest of the Moldova. Many Moldovans reacted with outrage at this infringement of their sovereignty and the Soviet central government publicly rebuked the separatists for making the situation worse and pushing Moldova further toward
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562:
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620:, standing as an independent candidate, got 2.1%. 1.6% voted for "none of the above" and 1.9% of the ballot papers were blank or spoiled. Turnout was 66.1%. None of these elections were recognized by the international community, which does not recognize the legality of the Transnistrian authorities and called for democratic elections for a self-governing territory within the boundaries of
511:. Once in the city soviet, Smirnov ran for chairmanship of that body. In a dramatic demonstration of how much the Communist Party's power had waned, Smirnov beat his challenger, the First Secretary of the city's Party Committee, Leonid Tsurkan, by a 2-to-1 margin. From this time forward, Tiraspol was an OSTK-controlled city.
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Smirnov and many of his colleagues were suspicious of the possibility of language laws from the beginning, they suspected this to be the first step towards "nationalization" of the republic at the expense of "their country", the Soviet Union. However, in August 1989, when it was leaked that
Moldovan
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Smirnov displayed a great enthusiasm for Soviet life, pursuing higher education in the evenings and weekends after work and participating in a number of athletic and cultural activities. He met and married a young engineer named
Zhannetta Nikolaevna Lotnik in the early 1960s and served in the Soviet
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A collection of writings by participants in the OSTK movement printed in the PMR provides many personal, though uniformly positive, memories of
Smirnov in this transition period. L. Alfer'eva, ed., Slavy ne iskali: sbornik vospominanii uchastnikov sozdaniia i stanovleniia PMR (Bendery: Poligrafist,
530:
Igor
Smirnov emerged as a leader of the OSTK on a regional level as Transnistrian politicians and activists worked towards sovereignty from the Moldovan SSR in the summer and autumn of 1990. When the First All-region Congress of Transnistrian Deputies created a self-contained Transnistrian economic
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Machine-Building
Institute in 1974. Meanwhile, he worked his way up from the shop floor to be an assistant director of one of the shops of the Nova Kakhovka Machine-Building Factory. With his college diploma, Smirnov continued to be promoted. He soon became the shop director, then assistant to the
545:
In his new role as chairman of the PMSSR Supreme Soviet, and later, president of the
Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (PMR), Smirnov worked to gain recognition for the state. While this was never a likely outcome, Smirnov was successful at securing the cooperation of a locally stationed Red Army
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unit; as the conflict grew increasingly violent at the end of 1991 and into 1992, Red Army leaders and enlisted men, often themselves from
Transnistria, gave moral support, weapons and ammunition to PMR separatists. Eventually a number of Red Army soldiers joined the PMR Army.
441:. This was just over two years before Smirnov led the city's municipal government as the chairman of the Tiraspol city soviet and just under three before he held the most powerful position in the embryonic, and unrecognized, Pridnestrovian Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic.
1048:
The flow of Red Army men and materiel to PMR armed forces was widely reported in the CIS press at the time. See for ex., Nezavisimaya Gazeta, June 18, 1992 trans. in FBIS, June 19, 1992, 63; and Radio Rossii, June 20, 1992, trans. in FBIS, June 22, 1992,
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A deputy to the
Supreme Soviet of the Moldovan SSR, unhappy with the changes, leaked the new draft to the newspaper of the "Tochlitmash" Machine-Building Concern in Tiraspol. See: Efim Bershin, Dikoe pole: Pridnestrovskii razlom (Moscow: Tekst, 2002),
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as the official language of the republic—at first with
Russian as a second official language and later without—the republic was divided over the issue of nationalizing Moldova. One side believed that Moldova should be independent from the
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as an opportunity to effect change through different means. Smirnov won two seats in the elections of
February 1990, the 32nd district seat for the city soviet (municipal government) of Tiraspol and the 125th district seat for the
949:"Igor' Smirnov - kandidat naroda", in Nepriznannaia respublika: ocherki, dokumenty, khronika: dokumenty gosudarstvennykh organov Pridnestrovia, Vol. II, Gryzlov, V.F., ed. (Moscow: Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk, TIMO, 1997), 19.
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Viktor Diukarev, Pridnestrov'e—proshloe, nastoiashchee, budushchee, za kulisami politiki. Dubossary 1989-1992 gg. (Tiraspol': Uprpoligrafizdat PMR, 2000), see esp. 198-203 for a first-hand, though partisan account of the
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486:(OSTK – Объединенный Совет трудовых коллективов) and called an immediate strike that eventually led to the shutdown of most major industrial activity (concentrated in the Transnistrian region) throughout the SSR.
960:
Smirnov—kandidat naroda", in Nepriznannaia respublika: ocherki, dokumenty, khronika: dokumenty gosudarstvennykh organov Pridnestrovia, Vol. I, Gryzlov, V.F., ed. (Moscow: Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk, TIMO, 1997),
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apparatus and Zinaida Grigor'evna Smirnova, a journalist and newspaper editor. As the Party promoted Nikolai Stepanovich to ever more important positions, the family moved from Petropavlosk to the
661:
Smirnov has announced that he will retire from politics when the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic obtains international recognition as a sovereign state and has called this goal his life's work.
553:, his successor as chairman of the PMSSR Supreme Soviet and another challenger in an election for president of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic. He won with 64% of the vote.
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zone in June 1990, Smirnov was elected chair of a coordinating council charged with carrying momentum forward to sovereignty. A second congress held on September 2 proclaimed the creation of the
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As communist states began to collapse at the end of the 1980s, people in some areas of the Soviet Union began to demand sovereignty for separate national identities. As the citizens of the
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1244:Президент подписал указ № 1021 об освобождении от занимаемой должности министра природных ресурсов и экологического контроля ПМР Калякина Олега Алексеевича в связи с поданным заявлением
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In his memoirs, Igor Smirnov reports that his father "had seen to it that the families of those killed on the front were supplied with necessities (free of charge)." Igor Smirnov,
542:, accused of "the intentional territorial dismemberment of the Republic of Moldova" and brought to Chișinău. He was released shortly thereafter after reported pressure from Russia.
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While he was not made director in 1987 when that position's erstwhile occupant retired, he was given the directorship of the "Elektromash" Electronics Concern in the nearby
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374:'s death in 1953, Nikolai Stepanovich was released together with many Soviet inmates. The Smirnov family was reunited in central Russia near the
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366:. He was sentenced to fifteen years in the Soviet forced labor camps with a following period of five years' internal exile. As the family of an
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Once back from the military, Smirnov also continued the correspondence courses he had begun in the early 1960s, receiving a degree from the
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1025:"(DOSARUL SMIRNOV) Arestarea separatistului la KIEV e "cea mai strălucită operaţiune din istoria MAI". Hadârcă RECUNOAȘTE că l-a eliberat"
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1152:Центризбирком Приднестровья огласил предварительные результаты голосования на выборах Президента ПМР, "Новый День", 15 December 2011
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In the December 2011 elections, Igor Smirnov came in third with 24.82% of the vote. He trailed the chairman of the Supreme Soviet,
597:
585:
581:
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In 1959, Igor Smirnov began work at the Zlatoust Metallurgical Factory at the age of eighteen. Soon, however, he moved back to
635:(which was rejected) or remain independent and join Russia in the future (which was approved). Smirnov did more references to
1462:
508:
499:
1271:"Указом Президента ПМР министром природных ресурсов и экологического контроля республики назначен Сергей Васильевич Мороз"
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would be made the only official language, Smirnov and other industrial workers in Tiraspol banded together to create the
411:
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538:
In 1991, Smirnov was arrested in a secret operation by special forces of the Moldovan Ministry of Internal Affairs in
260:
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1446:
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911:
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1135:Запасной аэродром Игоря Смирнова: Предварительные результаты выборов президента могут признать недействительными,
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378:, where Nikolai Stepanovich directed a primary school and Zinaida Grigor'evna worked as the editor of a local
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827:
601:
20:
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military. The Smirnovs initially benefited from Nikolai Stepanovich's successes—he reached the position of
109:
370:, life was difficult for Zinaida Grigor'evna and her three sons, Vladimir, Oleg, and Igor. In the wake of
3880:
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2013:
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837:
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When the strike campaign, from 16 August to 22 September 1989, failed to produce much of an effect in
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1336:
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factory's chief industrial upgrades and new technologies engineer and finally an assistant director.
301:
78:
1185:"Transdnestr president: Recognition of Transdnestr is the matter of my life - Russian News - REGNUM"
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on 17 September 2006 where the Transnistrian population was asked whether Transnistria should be
519:
515:
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241:
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1109:"Is internationally recognised independence the goal of quasi-states? The case of Transnistria"
613:
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658:, voiced a lack of confidence in Smirnov and supported the campaign of Anatolii Kaminskii.
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8:
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1162:Некремлевский претендент: Приднестровье не поддержало предложенную Москвой кандидатуру,
3771:
3168:
3108:
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2063:
1167:
1089:
859:
760:
550:
535:(PMSSR) and deputies elected him to chair the Provisional Supreme Soviet of the PMSSR.
356:
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1608:
1108:
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1058:"Vybory, referendumy, oprosy", in Nepriznania respublika, Vol. II, Gryzlov, ed., 179.
930:
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101:
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277:
134:
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561:
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121:
105:
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609:
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The following table shows Smirnov's cabinet at the end of his time in office.
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1178:"Transdnestr president: Recognition of Transdnestr is the matter of my life"
915:
651:
617:
495:
450:
399:
371:
340:
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62:
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3083:
2998:
2548:
2158:
1188:
589:
463:
426:
410:
Army from 1963 to 1966 as a Second Lieutenant. In 1963, Smirnov joined the
348:
332:
328:
324:
297:
225:
221:
612:, owner and editor of the Opposition newspaper Novaia gazeta got 3.9% and
3628:
3447:
3263:
2683:
2653:
2588:
2278:
2078:
1838:
1122:
1004:
Moscow Domestic Service, May 23, 1990, trans. in FBIS, May 24, 1990, 117.
2258:
1151:
1085:
1070:"Transnistrian nation-building: a case of effective diversity policies?"
498:, the OSTK re-examined its tactics. Smirnov and others saw the upcoming
3718:
3713:
2328:
1883:
1693:
1314:
474:
is spoken. The other believed that Moldova should remain a part of the
363:
24:
600:, Smirnov was re-elected for a third time with 82.4% of the vote. His
2673:
2403:
1568:
335:. He was the son of Nikolai Stepanovich Smirnov, a worker within the
1713:
1303:
573:
438:
415:
379:
344:
3740:
3730:
3688:
3622:
Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester
3402:
621:
467:
434:
391:
32:
584:, he took 72% of the vote against 20% for Vladimir Malakhov and
3778:
655:
478:
USSR, possibly in a post-communist, but still united country.
514:
Things did not go quite as smoothly for Igor Smirnov in the
362:
In the summer of 1952, Nikolai Stepanovich was arrested for
1273:(in Russian). Olvia Press. 22 December 2010. Archived from
1247:(in Russian). Olvia Press. 15 December 2010. Archived from
539:
336:
3487:
Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova
1029:
Stiri de ultima ora din Moldova - Ultimele stiri Timpul.md
797:
Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
3460:
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
1210:"Официальный Сайт Президента ПМР - Кабинет Министров"
580:
Igor Smirnov won three further elections after 1991.
291:
3807:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
1168:
http://www.ng.ru/cis/2011-12-13/1_pridnestrovie.html
3655:
Bureau for Reintegration of the Republic of Moldova
796:
533:Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
1445:
3857:
1067:
637:a possible accession of Transnistria into Russia
1300:Regions and territories: Trans-Dniester#Leaders
525:
1237:
1235:
1141:http://www.ng.ru/cis/2011-12-15/1_smirnov.html
3385:
1431:
1068:Osipov, Alexander; Vasilevich, Hanna (2019).
909:(Tiraspol': , 2001), 8. Available online at:
588:, he took 81.9% of the vote against 6.7% for
1106:
3871:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
1232:
3567:2006 Transnistrian independence referendum
3392:
3378:
1438:
1424:
296:; born 23 October 1941) is a Russian-born
147:2 September 1990 – 25 August 1991
91:1 October 1991 – 30 December 2011
61:
3557:Russian military presence in Transnistria
3550:Romanian-language schools in Transnistria
896:. (Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 2001), 9.
646:, and the former chairman of that body,
560:
556:
3901:Transnistrian people of Russian descent
834:Minister of Health and Social Security
507:of MSSR (republican government) in the
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1473:Declaration of Independence of Moldova
935:: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
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1419:
3911:Transnistrian independence activists
3891:People from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
509:1990 Moldovan parliamentary election
422:) after returning to civilian life.
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3789:Operational Group of Russian Forces
3577:2012 Moldova security zone incident
412:Communist Party of the Soviet Union
300:politician who served as the first
13:
3499:Unification of Moldova and Romania
453:debated the merits of introducing
14:
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3572:2006 Transnistrian customs crisis
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394:to work on the construction of a
3906:Transnistrian military personnel
3438:Union of Bessarabia with Romania
3411:
3401:
654:, the ruling political party of
309:Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic
259:
3482:Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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824:Minister of Telecommunications
396:new hydroelectric power station
16:First President of Transnistria
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965:
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809:Alexander Vasilyevich Kozelsky
650:. In the election, leaders of
549:In December 1991 Smirnov beat
484:United Work Collective Council
472:a virtually identical language
1:
1447:Moldovan Parliament 1990–1994
1107:Kosienkowski, Marcin (2012).
879:
828:Vladimir Mikhailovich Belyaev
757:Minister of Internal Affairs
359:committee in Soviet Ukraine.
21:Eastern Slavic naming customs
3545:Human rights in Transnistria
771:Sergei Mikhailovich Stepanov
747:Minister of Foreign Affairs
731:Stanislav Galimovich Hazheev
666:Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov
664:His last vice president was
526:Proclamation of independence
314:
306:internationally unrecognized
7:
867:
848:Maria Rafailovna Pashchenko
608:got only 8.1% of the vote.
466:, possibly in a union with
292:
282:И́горь Никола́евич Смирно́в
251:Zhannetta Nikolaevna Lotnik
10:
3927:
3896:Presidents of Transnistria
3650:Reintegration into Moldova
855:Minister of State Security
815:
807:
799:
671:
347:had recently expelled the
293:Igorʹ Nikolayevich Smirnov
19:In this name that follows
18:
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3429:First Partition of Poland
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2829:Dumitru Gheorghe Postovan
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1402:
1396:President of Transnistria
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1337:President of Transnistria
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1031:(in Romanian). 2013-12-17
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803:(until 14 December 2010)
801:Oleg Alekseevich Kaliakin
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776:
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756:
746:
741:Irina Ivanovna Molokanova
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714:
702:
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684:
633:reintegrated into Moldova
319:Igor Smirnov was born in
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267:
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237:
197:
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128:
115:
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79:President of Transnistria
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60:
51:
44:
3840:Cobasna ammunition depot
3675:Participants and figures
3631:(2005–present; see also
3562:Joint Control Commission
3477:The Holocaust in Romania
3470:Transnistria Governorate
1468:Popular Front of Moldova
1243:
874:Politics of Transnistria
819:(from 22 December 2010)
817:Sergei Vasilyevich Moroz
781:Elena Egorovna Chernenko
321:Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
274:Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov
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751:Vladimir Yastrebchak
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3004:Mihai Sâromeatnicov
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3309:Anna Volkova
3304:Piotr Volkov
3289:Ion Vatamanu
3224:Stepan Topal
3209:Victor Tocan
3194:Petru Tărâță
3084:Petru Soltan
3064:Igor Smirnov
3063:
3049:Anatol Simac
3034:Titu Serghei
2999:Aurel Saulea
2984:Vasile Sajin
2909:Nicolae Robu
2894:Alecu Reniță
2799:Serghei Popa
2779:Petru Poiată
2774:Mihai Poiată
2729:Mihai Patraș
2699:Vlad Pascaru
2549:Ion Munteanu
2519:Victor Morev
2449:Iurie Maxuta
2439:Danil Matcin
2419:Sergiu Manea
2349:Tudor Lefter
2254:Dumitru Guțu
2194:Ion Grigoraș
2159:Mihai Ghimpu
2084:Mihail Druță
1969:Jorj Crisico
1894:Ion Cojocaru
1889:Mihail Codin
1774:Petru Carauș
1749:Andrei Cabac
1679:Călin Botica
1559:Vasile Basoc
1549:Ananie Badan
1544:Vasile Baboi
1489:Boris Aculov
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3682:Pro-Moldova
3448:Moldovenism
3299:Vasile Vodă
3264:Vasile Ursu
3184:Ion Tăbâică
3159:Ion Țurcanu
3119:Ivan Țînnik
3114:Pavel Țîmai
3089:Anton Spânu
3019:Ion Scutaru
2969:Vasile Șova
2934:Mircea Rusu
2769:Petru Poian
2749:Sava Platon
2709:Ion Pădureț
2684:Vasile Para
2664:Vilor Ordin
2654:Tudor Olaru
2589:Tudor Negru
2584:Iacob Negru
2499:Ilie Mocanu
2484:Ion Mereuță
2464:Mihai Mălai
2339:Mihai Lazăr
2279:Vasile Iovv
2264:Ion Hadârcă
2244:Pavel Gusac
2184:Vasile Graf
2139:Mihai Gajiu
2079:Mircea Druc
1944:Ilie Coșanu
1839:Ion Chiriac
1744:Ion Butnaru
1629:Zosim Bodiu
1579:Mihai Bejan
1574:Elena Bălan
1359:Speaker of
1255:16 December
418:organizer (
382:newspaper.
349:Nazi German
165:Preceded by
117:Preceded by
33:family name
29:Nikolaevich
3860:Categories
3719:Maia Sandu
3714:Igor Dodon
3629:5+2 format
3422:Background
3134:Ion Țurcan
3124:Tudor Țopa
2929:Mihai Rusu
2649:Olga Ojoga
2594:Ion Negură
2494:Ion Mițcul
2329:Ion Lapaci
2114:Ion Eremia
1929:Ion Costaș
1884:Ion Ciuntu
1824:Ivan Chior
1694:Ilie Bratu
1619:Iovu Bivol
1400:1991–2011
1361:Parliament
1341:1990–1991
1331:New office
1315:Kommersant
1195:2006-09-14
1035:2024-03-21
922:2006-09-23
880:References
688:Incumbent
604:opponent,
364:corruption
208:1941-10-23
25:patronymic
3538:Aftermath
3174:Ion Tanas
2804:Ion Popov
2674:Ion Palii
2624:Ion Novac
2569:Ion Neagu
2404:Ion Madan
1569:Ion Batcu
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1094:201376934
991:Volkova,
694:President
315:Childhood
302:president
287:romanized
256:Signature
143:In office
87:In office
3821:See also
3517:Timeline
3164:Ion Tacu
2924:Ion Rusu
2794:Ion Popa
2379:Ion Luca
2259:Ion Guțu
1714:Ion Buga
1304:BBC News
931:cite web
868:See also
574:Barvikha
496:Chişinău
455:Moldovan
439:Tiraspol
437:city of
435:Moldovan
416:Komsomol
380:Komsomol
345:Red Army
242:Republic
184:(acting)
124:(acting)
3800:Neutral
3741:Ukraine
3731:Romania
3689:Moldova
1306:profile
1281:7 March
685:Office
672:Cabinet
622:Moldova
468:Romania
420:komsorg
402:in the
392:Ukraine
355:of the
331:during
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248:Spouse
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1090:S2CID
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907:Lider
3431:and
1283:2011
1257:2010
1226:2022
937:link
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