Oleg Serebrian (born 13 July 1969, Hădărăuți) is a

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

n politician, writer, diplomat and

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, President of the

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between 2010 and 2012.

Biography

He studied law and history at the Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University in Chișinău and international relations at the

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. Serebrian entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova in 1992. In 1998 he was awarded his doctorate in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

s. In 1998-1999 he served as spokesperson of Moldova's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 1999 and 2003, he was Deputy Rector of the Free University of Moldova. Between May 2001 and February 2008 Serebrian was Chairman of the Social Liberal Party. On February 10, 2008, after merging of Social Liberal Party with

Democratic Party of Moldova The European Social Democratic Party ( ro, Partidul Social Democrat European, PSDE) is a centre-left, populist social-democratic political party in Moldova. Established in 1997, the party holds pro-European views, and is an associate member of th ...

(DPM) he was elected First Deputy Chairman of DPM. Between March 2005 and July 2010 he was Member of the Parliament of Moldova (reelected for a second term in 2009). Between July 2010 and 13 July 2015 he was Ambassador of Moldova to

and

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. Since 13 November 2015 he is the Moldovan Ambassador to

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. He is the author of several books on international affairs and geopolitics. Since 19 January 2022, Serebrian is the Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of the Bureau for Reintegration of the Republic of Moldova. His predecessor in this post was

Vladislav Kulminski Vladislav Kulminski (born 24 October 1972) is a Moldovan politician. Kulminski has been referred to as an expert in internal affairs and national security. Furthermore, as of 2021, he was president of the Institute for Strategic Initiatives (IPI ...

, who resigned in 2021 due to personal reasons.

Major works

*''Geopolitica spaţiului pontic'' (''Geopolitics of the Black Sea Region'', 1998) *''Politosfera'' (''Politosphere'', 2001) *''Politică şi geopolitică ''(''Politics and Geopolitics'', 2004) *''Dicţionar de geopolitică'' (''Dictionary of Geopolitics'', 2006) *''Despre geopolitică'' (''About Geopolitics'', 2009) *''Cântecul mării'' (''Song of the Sea'', 2011), novel *''Rusia la răspântie'' (''Russia at the crossroads'', 2014) *''Woldemar'' (2018), novel

References

External links

Latin Union official site
1969 births People from Ocnița District Living people Moldova State University alumni Geopoliticians Moldovan political scientists Government ministers of Moldova Democratic Party of Moldova MPs Moldovan MPs 2005–2009 Moldovan MPs 2009–2010 Ambassadors of Moldova to France Permanent Delegates of Moldova to UNESCO Moldovan writers Moldovan male writers Officers of the Order of the Star of Romania {{Moldova-politician-stub