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Oleg Olegovich Khorzhan (russian: Олег Олегович Хоржан; born 30 June 1976) is a Transnistrian lawyer and politician who previously served as the chairman of the
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 ...
and as a member of Transnistria's Supreme Council. In 2018, he was arrested and imprisoned for allegedly assaulting law enforcement during a political rally. He was released on 6 December 2022 after serving the entirety of his sentence. During his imprisonment, Khorzhan was considered a political prisoner by his supporters and the UCP–CPSU.


Career


Early work

Khorzhan worked at the
Dubăsari Dubăsari ( ro, Dubăsari , Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: Дубэсарь) or Dubossary (russian: Дубоссары; yi, דובאסאר; uk, Дубоcсари) is a city in Transnistria, with a population of 23,650. Claimed by both the Republic ...
military hospital following the end of the Transnistria War in July 1992. He joined the local communist party when he turned 18 and took an active role in the reconstruction of the party's youth wing. In April 1995, he was elected to the Tiraspol City Council. From 1997 to 2000, he served as chairman of the parliamentary legal commission. Khorzhan was later awarded an honorary diploma by City Council for his work.


2000s

In May 2003, he joined the newly created
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 ...
(PCP) and was elected its chairman after the original party leader was imprisoned. In March 2007, Khorzhan was arrested and detained for organizing a protest in Tiraspol against rising prices and taxes. He was subsequently sentenced to one and a half years of probation.


2010s

In the 2010 parliamentary elections, Khorzhan became the first PCP candidate to be elected to the Supreme Council. During his first term he was assigned to the Committee on Education, Science and Culture. Khorzhan ran in the 2011 presidential election as an independent with the support of the PCP, and came in fourth with 5.09% of the vote. On the anniversary of Transnistria's founding in 2014, then- President Yevgeny Shevchuk awarded Khorzhan the medal "For Labor Valor". For his efforts in developing and strengthening relations between Transnistria and the other breakaway republic of South Ossetia, he was awarded an honorary diploma by the
Parliament of South Ossetia The Parliament of South Ossetia is the unicameral legislature of the partially recognized Republic of South Ossetia. The 34 members of parliament are elected using a mixed system of Party-list proportional representation (17) and single-member di ...
. Khorzhan was also awarded the Order of Party Valor by the
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for his work in Moscow. Khorzhan was elected again in the 2015 parliamentary elections, taking first place in the No. 40 constituency with 43.62% of the vote. He ran for president again in the
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, this time as a PCP candidate. He placed third with 3.17% of the vote.


2018 arrest and imprisonment

On 2 June 2018, Khorzhan held a rally in Tiraspol, at which, a number of attendees were detained by police. Later that day in the evening, Khorzhan went to the city's internal affairs building to meet with the director and vouch for the detainees' release. Police officers blocked him from entering the building and a physical altercation reportedly took place. Khorzhan wrote a statement to the police afterwards, denouncing the police's actions as a disproportionate use of force and a violation of his rights as a member of the Supreme Council. In turn, on the recommendation of head prosecutor Anatoly Guretsky, Khorzhan was stripped of his parliamentary immunity and arrested on 6 June 2018. Several other party members had been arrested by authorities prior to Khorzhan, including his wife, his son, and Tiraspol City Council deputy Alexander Samoniy. Khorzhan's arrest was immediately met with condemnation from members of the UPC–CPSU, who denounced his detention as illegal and politically motivated. On 3 November 2018, the Supreme Court of Transnistria found Khorzan guilty of assaulting law enforcement and sentenced him to four and a half years in prison. He was also ordered to pay a hefty fine.
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expressed his disagreement with the ruling and urged the Moldovan prosecutor's office to respond, but no action was taken by the latter. Khorzhan was released from prison on 6 December 2022 after serving the entirety of his sentence.


Personal life

Khorzhan is married and has two sons.


References

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