Anatoliy Vladimirovich Kaminski (Ukrainian: Анато́лій Володи́мирович Камі́нський, Russian: Анатолий Владимирович Каминский; born 15 March 1950) is an ethnic Ukrainian politician from Transnistria, former speaker of the Supreme Council of Transnistria and former chairman of Obnovlenie.
Anatoliy Kaminski | |
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Анатолий Каминский | |
 Kaminski in 2011 | |
| Speaker of the Supreme Council of Transnistria | |
| In office 8 July 2009 – 13 June 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Yevgeny Shevchuk |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Burla |
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| Born | 15 March 1950 Baley, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Political party | Obnovlenie |
Early life
Kaminski was born in 1950 in eastern Russia, but his family was of Ukrainian-Polish descent[citation needed]. His family moved to the Moldavian SSR in 1957[citation needed]. Kaminski studied in Odesa, Ukraine, at the M.V. Lomonosov Odesa Institute of Technology[citation needed]. He subsequently worked as a manager at several dairy plants in the Moldavian SSR[citation needed].
Political career
Kaminski's first political office was as a member of the council of the city of Rîbnița from 1990 until 2000[citation needed], when he was elected to parliament. In 2005, he was re-elected in an election that proved to be a victory for his party. Kaminski was subsequently elected as vice-speaker, with Yevgeny Shevchuk, also of the Obnovlenie party, becoming speaker[citation needed].
On 22 July 2009, Shevchuk resigned as speaker and Kaminski was elected unopposed to replace him. The newly elected vice-speaker was Mikhail Burla, chairman of Obnovlenie.[1]
President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity awarded Kaminski the "Order of Friendship" on 12 March 2010, "for a great personal contribution to the development of friendship between the peoples of South Ossetia and Transnistria, merits in strengthening inter-parliamentary cooperation and for his 60-year birthday".[2]
In December 2011, Kaminski ran for president of Transnistria as the candidate of Obnovlenie.[3][4] In the first round of elections, he received 26.48% of the vote, narrowly making it into the second round of voting. Yevgeny Shevchuk, the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet, received the most support with 38.53%, while sitting president, Igor Smirnov, came in third with 24.82%.[5][6] In the election, United Russia, the ruling political party of Russia, supported Kaminski's campaign.[7][8]
Personal life
Kaminski is married and has two children[citation needed].
External links
- Official biography page, from Parliament (in Russian)
- English version of the same page (in English)