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2006 Transnistrian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Transnistria on 10 December 2006. Incumbent President Igor Smirnov won despite opposition having stiffened during the final weeks of the campaign. Three candidates registered to run besides the incumbent Smirnov: Bender MP for ''the Renewal'' party Peter Tomaily, Pridnestrovie Communist Party candidate Nadezhda Bondarenko and journalist Andrey Safonov Andrei Safonov (russian: Андре́й Миха́йлович Сафо́нов; born 6 June 1964) is a politician from Transnistria. He lives in Bender, Transnistria's second largest city. Biography Safonov ran for president against incumbe .... Background Andrey Safonov's candidacy was at first rejected on the basis of insufficient and allegedly fraudulent signatures, but on 30 November the Tiraspol law court accepted it. Despite the court ruling, at the Electoral Commission meeting on 27 November Safonov's registration was not accepted with some members claiming that the court decisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Smirnov (politician)
Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov (russian: И́горь Никола́евич Смирно́в, Igorʹ Nikolayevich Smirnov; ro, Igor Nicolaevici Smirnov; born 23 October 1941) is a Russian-born Transnistrian politician who served as the first president (1991–2011) of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic. Childhood Igor Smirnov was born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union during World War II. He was the son of Nikolai Stepanovich Smirnov, a worker within the Soviet Communist Party 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 Ukrainian SSR, where the Red Army had recently expelled the Nazi German military. The Smirnovs initially benefited from Nikolai Stepanovich's successes—he reached the position of First Secretary of the Golopristanskiy Raion (district) committee in Soviet Ukraine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov
Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov (Aлексáндр Ивáнович Королёв) Polish: (Aleksander Korołiow) is a Transnistrian politician born in Wrocław, Poland on 24 October 1959. He is of Russians, Russian ethnicity. Until 2006, he was the Minister of the Interior of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR). He started to work in the ministry of the interior of the Moldavian SSR in 1985. When the PMR declared independence on 2 September 1990, Korolev continued his work in the same post but under the new government until 2000, when he was appointed the country's minister of the interior. Korolev holds PMR citizenship. In the 2006 Transnistrian presidential election, December 10, 2006 PMR presidential election he was elected to the post of Vice President of Transnistria as the running mate of Igor Smirnov (politician), Igor Smirnov. He is the head of the PMR Security Council (PMR), Security Council. Once a year, he also MC's the annual Miss PMR competition for charity. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadezhda Bondarenko
Nadezhda Andreevna Bondarenko (russian: Надежда Андре́евна Бондаренко; born 19 October 1950) is a Transnistrian politician who has served as the acting chairperson of the Pridnestrovie Communist Party (PCP) since late 2018. She was formerly a police officer, and was the PCP's candidate for the 2006 presidential election. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the PCP's party newspaper, '' Pravda Pridnestrovya''. She is of Russian and Ukrainian descent. Early career She worked as an investigator in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (MVD; russian: Министерство внутренних дел СССР (МВД)) was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991. The MVD was established as the successor to th ... as part of the Tiraspol Internal Affairs Directorate. She later joined the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Pridnestrovie
The Communist Party of Pridnestrovie (KPP; ro, Partidul Comunist din Nistrenia, Moldovan Cyrillic: Партидул Комунист дин Нистрения; russian: Коммунистическая партия Приднестровья; uk, Комуністична партія Придністров'я) was a communist party in Transnistria, led by Vladimir Gavrilchenko. It was described by state media as the more "conservative" communist party in comparison to the Pridnestrovie Communist Party (PCP). Overview The Communist Party of Pridnestrovie maintains close contacts with groups in Russia. It was affiliated with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union led by Oleg Shenin, and it usually refers to itself by its abbreviation KPP-KPSS. However, it had no representation in Transnistria's Supreme Council. It supported independent statehood for Transnistria and opposed the administration of President Igor Smirnov. It provided no candidate to run in the 10 December 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pridnestrovie Communist Party
The Pridnestrovie Communist Party (PCP), Moldovan Cyrillic: , uk, Придністровська комуністична партія is a communist party in the unrecognized state of Transnistria. The party was led by Oleg Khorzhan until his arrest and imprisonment in 2018. The party newspaper is the Russian-language biweekly ''Pravda Pridnestrovya''. It is printed in Georgia and sold locally in Transnistria; digital copies are also available online. History The PCP first fielded candidates in the 2005 legislative election but did not win any seats. Nadezhda Bondarenko, an editor of the official party newspaper ''Pravda Pridnestrovya'' and a member of the party's central committee, was the PCP's candidate in the 2006 presidential election. She received 8.1% of the vote, coming second to Smirnov, who won his fourth term in office with 82.4% of the vote. Khorzhan and Bondarenko were arrested on 11 March 2007 while handing out leaflets ahead of an anti-Smirnov rally, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoliy Bazhen
Anatoly (russian: Анато́лий, Anatólij , uk, Анато́лій, Anatólij ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian male given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'', meaning "sunrise." Other common Russian transliterations are Anatoliy and Anatoli. The Ukrainian transliteration is Anatoliy or Anatolii. The French version of the name is Anatole. Other variants are Anatol and more rarely Anatolio. Saint Anatolius of Alexandria was a fifth-century saint who became the first patriarch of Constantinople in 451. Anatoly was one of the five most popular names for baby boys born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2004. One in every 35,110 Americans are named Anatoly and the popularity of the name Anatoly is 28.48 people per million. The name of Anatolia – a region located to the east from the Greeks' point of view – shares the same linguistic origin. People * Anatoli Agrofenin (born 1980), Russian footballer * Anatoli Aleksandrovich Grishin (born 1986), Russian footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transnistria
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldovan–Ukrainian border, as well as some land on the other side of the river's bank. Its capital and largest city is Tiraspol. Transnistria has been recognised only by three other unrecognised or partially recognised breakaway states: Abkhazia, Artsakh and South Ossetia. Transnistria is officially designated by the Republic of Moldova as the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester ( ro, Unitățile Administrativ-Teritoriale din stînga Nistrului) or as ("Left Bank of the Dniester"). The Council of Europe considers the territory to be under military occupation by Russia. The region's origins can be traced to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which was formed in 1924 within th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bender, Moldova
Bender (, Moldovan Cyrillic: Бендер) or Bendery (russian: Бендеры, , uk, Бендери), also known as Tighina ( ro, Tighina), is a city within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova under ''de facto'' control of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria) (PMR) since 1992. It is located on the western bank of the river Dniester in the Romanian historical region of Bessarabia. Together with its suburb Proteagailovca, the city forms a municipality, which is separate from Transnistria (as an administrative unit of Moldova) according to Moldovan law. Bender is located in the buffer zone established at the end of the 1992 War of Transnistria. While the Joint Control Commission has overriding powers in the city, Transnistria has ''de facto'' administrative control. The fortress of Tighina was one of the important historic fortresses of the Principality of Moldova until 1812. Name First mentioned in 1408 as ''Tyagyanyakyacha'' (Т ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renewal (Transnistria)
Obnovlenie (russian: Обновление, lit=Renewal), officially the Republican Party "Obnovlenie",, , uk, Республіканська партія «Оновлення» is a political party in the unrecognized state of Transnistria, an entity that is internationally recognized as part of Moldova. It has been the parliamentary majority in the Supreme Council since 2005. History The party was founded as a political non-governmental organization in 2000. Then in the legislative elections of 10 December 2000, it won 7 out of 43 seats. In the 27 March 2005 local council elections, the party campaigned under the current name above, and won the majority of the seats for the first time in its five-year history. It improved on 11 December 2005 to win 23 of those 43 seats (with another 6 seats going to allies). Since the legislative elections of 2005, it is the majority party in the Supreme Council. The party's leaders in parliament during 2005 were Mikhail Burla and Yevgeny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Tomaily
Petr Tomaily (Cyrillic: Петр Томайлы; born 21 October 1965 in Cioc-Maidan, Moldavian SSR) is a Transnistrian businessman and politician, who previously served as a member of the Transnistrian parliament for the political party Obnovlenie. He was a candidate for President in the 2006 election, standing as an independent, and finished last in a four-candidate race. He is an entrepreneur and owner of a private business in Bender. He is an ethnic Gagauz. Personal life He is -- shorter than typical. He speaks Turkic, fluent English, Romanian and Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ..., When he was 2 years old, his right arm became disabled. External links Peter Tomaily Official parliamentary biography 1965 births Living people Gagauz people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Safonov
Andrei Safonov (russian: Андре́й Миха́йлович Сафо́нов; born 6 June 1964) is a politician from Transnistria. He lives in Bender, Transnistria's second largest city. Biography Safonov ran for president against incumbent president Igor Smirnov in the election held on December 10, 2006, and came third with 3.9% of the vote. He is a former teacher of literature and a former member of the parliament of the MSSR (Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic), within the USSR
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Republic (Transnistria)
Republic ( ro, Republica, Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet, Moldovan Cyrillic: Република; russian: Республика; uk, Республіка) is a political party in Transnistria. The party is affiliated with former President of Transnistria, Transnistrian President Igor Smirnov (politician), Igor Smirnov. In the Legislature, legislative Elections in Transnistria, elections of 11 December 2005 Transnistrian parliamentary election, 2005, the party won 13 of the 43 seats. The party failed to win a single seat in the 2005 Transnistrian legislative election, 2010 legislative elections. Election results Political parties in Transnistria {{Transnistria-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
