Petru Lucinschi

Petru Lucinschi (Russian Пётр Кириллович Лучинский, Pyotr Kirilovitch Lutschinski; born 27 January 1940 in Rădulenii Vechi in Floreşti ) is a Moldovan politician.

Petru Lucinschi studied after the service in the Soviet Army history at the University of Chisinau. After his graduation, he attended the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From 1971 to 1976 he was secretary of the Communist Party of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1978 he was in the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow worked, from 1986 a member of the Supreme Soviet and later a member of People's Deputies Congress. Mikhail Gorbachev appointed him as a supporter of perestroika in 1990 to the Central Committee Secretariat and the Politburo.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, he returned to Moldova and was a member of parliament, and later President of the Parliament. In the presidential elections of 1996 he ran as an Independent. In the ballot supported him the parts of the left spectrum. After the victory, he was sworn in on 15 January 1997, succeeding Mircea Snegur ion in the office of the President of the Republic of Moldova. 2001 followed by Vladimir Voronin in office.