Gheorghe Papuc (born 6 May 1954) is a

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states ...

n politician.

Biography

He was born in early May in the city of

Ungheni Ungheni () is a municipality in Moldova. With a population of 35,157, it is the seventh largest town in Moldova and the seat of Ungheni District. There is a bridge across the Prut and a border checkpoint to Romania. There is another border t ...

, an area west of Chisnau in the

Moldovan SSR The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( ro, Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 1940 ...

. After graduating from the high school in 1971, he enrolled in the

Soviet Armed Forces The Soviet Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and as the Red Army (, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1991), and th ...

. In 1978, he graduated from the Felix Dzherzhinsky Military High School in

Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901,36 ...

. After studying there, he began to enroll in a Russian law school. Papuc began to become more active in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. In 1991, he graduated from the Tashkent MVD High School (now the

Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan The Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan ( uz, O'zbekiston Respublikasi Ichki ishlar vazirligi akademiyasi), also known as the Tashkent Police School ( uz, Toshkent politsiya maktabi) is the main educational institution of the ...

). Between 1992 and 1997, Papuc held leading positions in the MAI of Moldova and the MVD in the

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, leading several detached units in the Kabardino-Balkaria. He returned to

in 1997 to lead a special operations brigade in the armed forces. He became the Moldovan Minister of the Interior on 27 February 2002, and would serve in this position until 31 March 2008 and serve a second time from 27 October 2008 - 25 September 2009.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Papuc, Gheorghe 1954 births Living people People from Ungheni District Moldovan Ministers of the Interior Communist Party of Moldavia politicians Moldovan jurists Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova politicians