Anatolie Nosatîi (born 12 September 1972) is the

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of the

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Early life and career

From 1987 to 1990, he studied at the Frunze Republican Boarding School in the Moldovan capital. After 1990, he studied in

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, attending a command school in

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before going to study at the Military Academy in

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. From 1994-2000, he served at the Chisinau Military College (now the Alexandru cel Bun Military Academy), rising to the post of battalion commander. In the early years of the 2000s, he commanded the 22nd Peacekeeping Battalion. In that decade, he received American education within the

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: first at the

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(1999), the Army Engineer School (1999), the

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(2005), and the

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(2012). Over the course of six years until December 2014, he operated in the bureaucracy of the General Staff, before briefly serving as the Moldovan military advisor at the

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Minister of Defence

He was appointed on 6 August 2021 as part of the

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. On 6 August, Nosatii was introduced by President

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and Premier

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to the command of the

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. Nosatii met a couple of weeks later with his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Taran in

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to strengthen his country's cooperation with that the

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Personal life

He speaks four languages:

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, and

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. He has been awarded the Orders of Loyalty to the Motherland, the

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, and the

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References

1972 births Living people Politicians from Chișinău Government ministers of Moldova {{Moldova-bio-stub