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Galina Dodon (
She was born on 12 February 1977 in the
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: Галина Додон; born 12 February 1977) is the wife of the former President of Moldova
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Igor Dodon
Igor Dodon (; born 18 February 1975) is a Moldovan politician who previously served as the president of Moldova from 23 December 2016 to 24 December 2020. He currently serves as the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova. ...
, serving as the First Lady of Moldova
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from 2016 to 2020.
Biography
She was born on 12 February 1977 in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
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. She began her professional activity as an accountant
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in September 1999, the same year that she married Igor Dodon
Igor Dodon (; born 18 February 1975) is a Moldovan politician who previously served as the president of Moldova from 23 December 2016 to 24 December 2020. He currently serves as the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova. ...
, whom she met in a student hostel. Until 2012, she was deputy chief accountant at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova. She has been the financial director of Exclusive Media since March 2012. Dodon has said that she always tries to avoid politics at home and in the media.
Galina and Igor Dodon have three children: Bogdan, Vlad, and Nikolai. Apart from her native Romanian, she is also fluent in Russian and English.
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