Yevgeny Shevchuk

Yevgeny Shevchuk
Евгений Шевчук
Shevchuk in 2012
2nd President of Transnistria
In office 30 December 2011 – 16 December 2016
Prime Minister	Pyotr Stepanov Tatiana Turanskaya Maija Parnas (Acting) Tatiana Turanskaya Maija Parnas (Acting) Pavel Prokudin
Preceded by	Igor Smirnov
Succeeded by	Vadim Krasnoselsky
Speaker of the Supreme Council
In office 28 December 2005 – 8 July 2009
President	Igor Smirnov
Preceded by	Grigore Mărăcuță
Succeeded by	Anatoliy Kaminski
Personal details
Born	Yevgeny Vasylovych Shevchuk (1968-06-19) 19 June 1968 (age 56) Rîbnița, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Nina Shtanski
Alma mater	Transnistria State University All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade Ukrainian Agricultural Academy

Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk (Russian: Евге́ний Васи́льевич Шевчу́к, romanized: Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Shevchuk, Ukrainian: Євге́н Васи́льович Шевчу́к, romanized: Yevhen Vasylovych Shevchuk, Romanian: Evgheni Șevciuc, Moldovan Cyrillic: Евгени Васильевичь Шевчюк; born 19 June 1968) is a Transnistrian former politician who served as the second President of Transnistria, from 2011 to 2016.

He was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Transnistria from 2000 until his election as president in 2011. Furthermore, he was speaker of Pridnestrovian Supreme Soviet from 2005 to 2009 and the leader of the political party Obnovlenie until 2010. Shevchuk is an ethnic Ukrainian and a citizen of both Transnistria and Russia.^[1]

In 2017, Shevchuk fled to Moldova while being pursued on criminal charges. In December 2018, he was sentenced in absentia to 16 years in prison and a fine of about 36 million US dollars.^[2]