Vladimir Țurcan (born 14 October 1954) is a judge and former Moldovan politician.

Biography

Vladimir Țurcan was born on 14 October 1954 and in the town of

Slobozia Slobozia () is the capital city of Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania, with a population of 41,550 in 2021. Etymology Its name is from the Romanian "slobozie", which meant a recently colonized village which was free of taxation. The word its ...

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(now

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). In 1976 he graduated from Faculty of Law at

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. In 1985, he graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Political Science and Social Management. In 1988, 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 to 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

Constitutional Court of Moldova The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova () represents the sole body of constitutional jurisdiction in the Moldova, Republic of Moldova, autonomous and independent from the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. The task of the ...

.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 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2019.

External links

Site-ul Parlamentului Republicii Moldova

References

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