Grigore Mărăcuţă
Grigori Stepanovich MARAKUTSA (Russian Григорий Степанович Маракуца; Romanian Grigore Maracuta; born 15 October 1942 in Teja Grigoriopol, Moldavian SSR ) is a Transnistrian politician and from 1991 to 2005 parliamentary speaker.
He played an important role in the declaration of independence of his country and joined the first presidential elections in Transnistria in 1991, in which he, however, later president Igor Smirnov subject.
Life and career
MARAKUTSA was born in 1942 into a Moldavian ( Romanian ) family in Teja, near Grigoriopol. He went to school and worked in Parkany after graduating in 1960 briefly in Kazakhstan. On the Agricultural Institute in Zelinograd (now Astana ), he completed a degree in electrical engineering in 1968 from. Back in his home Moldovan he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and worked as an instructor in the soon Rajon Kamenka and later First Secretary Rajons this.
When the Soviet Union in 1990 was close to disintegration, tried the Moldavian SSR to achieve national independence. Meanwhile, the local politics was dominated by nationalist forces, including an association of Moldova with Romania was in the room. In the Russo -speaking east of the Dniester located part of the country you saw their rights to be threatened and split then as Transdniestrian Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova from the rest. First Transnistria tried as an independent Soviet republic to remain in the Soviet Union. MARAKUTSA belonged then to the first members of the new Transnistrian Parliament. The new Transnistrian Soviet Socialist Republic was not recognized by the central government in Moscow.
When the Soviet Union was finally dissolved in late 1991 and now Moldova became independent, also Transnistria declared its independence. The region was, however, still claimed by Moldova. At the first election in Transnistria in 1991 MARAKUTSA was one of the presidential candidates, Igor Smirnov, however, subject to clear. He then joined the party Smirnov and was 5 November 1991 to 21 December 2005 Chairman of the Transnistrian parliament. He had to give Yevgeny Shevchuk this post eventually.
On March 5, 2013 he was appointed Chairman of the " Council of Elders " in Transnistria.
In August 2013 MARAKUTSA was declared with 334 other people, including Caroline Cox, Vladimir Yastrebchak, Albano Carrisi and Montserrat Caballé persona non grata in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani government justified this step with an " unauthorized visit " of the persons concerned in the disputed region of Nagorno -Karabakh.