Vladimir Ţurcan (born 14 October 1954) is a

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n judge and former politician.

Biography

Vladimir Turcan was born on 14 October 1954 and in the town of Slobodzeya, Moldavian SSR. In 1976 he graduated from Faculty of Law at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. In 1985, he graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Political Science and Social Management. In

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, he graduated from the

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Higher Party School. From 1976 to 1982, he investigator in the Prosecutor's Office of the MSSR. From 1986-1990, he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Moldova. In the early 90s, he was General Director of the Moldavian-

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ian enterprise Zubr. On 11 February 1997, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of the Interior. He held the position until 21 December 1999. On 21 March 2002, he was appointed as the Ambassador of Moldova to

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. He was also concurrently appointed as Ambassador to

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. He would later hold the posts of ambassador to

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and

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. On 16 August 2019, he was appointed president of the

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.115845 & lang = en Decree of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova No. 121 of August 16, 2019 “On the Appointment of Judges of the Constitutional Court”
/ref> He was also a member of the

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from 2005-2010 and from 2014-2019.

External links

Site-ul Parlamentului Republicii Moldova

References

1954 births Living people Moldovan MPs 2001–2005 Moldovan MPs 2009–2010 Moldovan Ministers of the Interior Communist Party of Moldavia politicians Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova politicians Constitutional Court of Moldova judges {{Moldova-politician-stub