Preceded by Mircea Snegur Party Agrarian Party of Moldova Preceded by Semion Grossu Succeeded by Vladimir Voronin | Name Petru Lucinschi Resigned April 7, 2001 | |
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Prime Minister Ion Ciubuc
Serafim Urechean
Ion Sturza
Dumitru Braghis Prime Minister Ivan Calin
Petru Pascari
Mircea Druc Born 27 January 1940 (age 84)
Radulenii Vechi village, Soroca County, Romania ( 1940-01-27 ) Political party Agrarian Party of Moldova Other political
affiliations Communist Party of Moldova,
Communist Party of the Soviet Union Presidential term January 15, 1997 – April 7, 2001 | ||
Education Moldova State University | ||
Petru lucinschi asfalt de moldova
Petru Chiril Lucinschi ([ˈpetru kiˈril luˈt͡ʃinski]; Russian: Пётр Кири́ллович Лучи́нский, Pyotr Kirillovich Luchinsky; born 27 January 1940) is a former Moldovan politician who was Moldova's second President (1997–2001).
Contents
- Petru lucinschi asfalt de moldova
- Petru lucinschi former president of moldavia
- Biography
- Personal Life
- Awards
- References
Petru lucinschi former president of moldavia
Biography
Petru Lucinschi was born on 27 January 1940 in Rădulenii Vechi village, Soroca County, Kingdom of Romania (now Florești district). He has a PhD in Philosophy (1977) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
From 1971, Lucinschi was a member of the Executive Committee (Politburo) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Moldavian SSR. He was the only native Moldovan in the leadership of Communist Party of Moldova at that time, when the leadership of Moldavian SSR was almost completely in the hands of people from outside the republic or Transnistrians.
From 1978 to 1989, he was First Secretary of Chișinău City Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. In 1978, Ivan Bodiul sent him to work for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, where Lucinschi remained until 1986. From 1986 to 1989, Lucinschi was second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. Upon his return to Moldavian SSR in 1989, he became first secretary of the Communist Party of Moldova.
In early 1991 he was appointed First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, so he again left Moldavian SSR for Moscow.
In 1992 he was appointed as Ambassador of Moldova in Russia. On 4 february 1993 he was elected as Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament, being re-elected on 29 March 1994 for a new term. He hold the funtion until 1997.
Lucinschi was elected Moldova's second president in November 1996. He served until 2001 when he called a snap election, and the Parliament voted in favour of Vladimir Voronin.
Personal Life
Lucinschi was married to Antonina (deceased 2006), a retired schoolteacher, and has two sons, Sergiu and Chiril.