Nina Shtanski - former foreign minister of the unrecognized republic

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

In the post-Soviet space, politics, as a rule, is a purely masculine affair. However, bright, spectacular women appear from time to time on this dull gray field, which delight the eyes of the townsfolk. One of them was Nina Shtanski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic from 2012 to 2016. She not only worked conscientiously in the diplomatic field, but also engaged in teaching and scientific activities, and also successfully tried herself as a fashion model.

Mysterious Nina

Nina Shtanski's biography is mysterious and uncharted territory. In her interviews, the woman politician rarely talks about her personal life, and very little can be learned from official sources about her early formative years.

Nina Shtanski was born in 1977 in Tiraspol, today's capital of the PMR. The childhood and youth of the heroine coincide with the period of the height of the conflict interritory of Transnistria.

The girl grew up in an environment of canned civil confrontation, and her worldview evolved based on very specific realities. Nina Shtanski's majority almost coincided with the cessation of hostilities and the formation of the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic.

An effective, prominent girl stood out among her peers, but at the same time she hoped not only for her appearance. She enters the Faculty of Law of the Pridnestrovian State University and successfully masters the entire course of the future lawyer.

Rise to the heights of power

Having successfully completed her studies, Nina Shtanski after some time gets to work in the highest body of the PMR - the Supreme Council. She began her career in power in 2002 as a leading specialist in the parliamentary apparatus.

Moldovan media, very nervous about the PMR, simply call her secretary.

Nina Shtanski worked in the Supreme Council for seven years, showing high responsibility and hard work, and gradually rose higher and higher up the career ladder. From a simple clerk, the girl grew up to an assistant to the speaker of the Supreme Council, and then received a more responsible post of adviser on political issues.

In 2009, the young ambitious Nina Shtanski made a fateful acquaintance with the future leader of the PMR Yevgeny Shevchuk. Then he carried out the duties of a deputy, and also headed the Renaissance movement he created. active,since 2009, a business employee of the parliament began working as an adviser to Shevchuk, and at the same time was engaged in teaching activities at the Transnistrian State University and the Tiraspol Interregional University.

Diplomatic work

Nina Shtansky made the right choice, putting Yevgeny Shevchuk on the rise in her time. The politician made a daring leap into the upper echelons of power and managed to be elected president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic. You can talk as much as you like about the ephemeral and vulnerable position of the PMR in the world, dependence on Russia, but people of the Shtanski generation simply did not know another homeland, and they perceive their republic as a real state that has the right to exist and for whose benefit it is worth working.

After Shevchuk was elected president, a young, ambitious woman took up this work of building the state in the PMR. In 2011, Nina Shtanski was appointed Special Representative of the President for International Relations and Negotiations.

A year later, the charming brunette received a responsible post in the government of the republic, becoming the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Transnistria.

As for any unrecognized state, the issue of international relations for the PMR is particularly acute, the situation is complicated by the impossibility of direct official contacts with foreign states through conventional diplomatic channels. Under such conditions, the country's chief diplomat has to show special ingenuity and resourcefulness tosolving especially acute issues of relations with other countries.

Chief Negotiator and Deputy Prime Minister

Responsible for the country's foreign policy, Nina Shtanski, was appointed by President Shevchuk as the head of the Transnistrian delegation for negotiations in the 5 + 2 format on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. The situation was initially stalemate, the parties had a completely different idea even about the goals and objectives of the negotiations, so the zero result of this mission was a foregone conclusion and did not become a miscalculation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Be that as it may, the PMR is a de facto real state that must have some kind of relationship with neighboring countries, import and export export products. Given all the complexities of these issues, Yevgeny Shevchuk gave Nina Shtanski even greater powers, appointing her Deputy Chairman of the PMR for Foreign Policy.

The last years of a woman at the head of the republic's foreign policy coincided with the conflict in Ukraine.

Cut off from Russia by the territory of an independent power, Transnistria found itself practically in conditions of an external blockade. However, Nina Shtanski did what she could in this situation and resigned with dignity in 2016 due to maternity leave.

Family

In 2015, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President of the PMR got married. Nina Shtanski and the President of Transnistria officially legalized their relationship. In 2016, their daughter Sofia was born, after which the first lady moved away from the stateactivities and took care of the newborn. In addition, Nina Shtanski has a daughter, Yana, from her first marriage.

A beautiful, bright woman has repeatedly become the object of attention of many media. Photos of Nina Shtanski regularly graced articles related to PMR issues.