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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 162. Not illustrated. Chapters: Igor Smirnov, Mihai Ghimpu, Mircea Druc, Petru Lucinschi, Gheorghe Ghimpu, Serafim Urechean, Stepan Topal, Mircea Snegur, Iurie Ro ca, Mihai Volontir, Alexandru Mo anu, Ion Hadarc, Ion Costa, Nicolae Costin, Anatol alaru, Constantin T nase, Mihai Cimpoi, Mihail Kendighelean, Vladimir Be leag, Nicolae Dabija, Mihai Poiat, Gheorghe Amihalachioaie, Mihai Co codan, Dumitru Bra oveanu, Valentin Dolganiuc, Victor Berlinschi, Nadejda Branzan, Petru Sandulachi, Alexandru Arseni, Gheorghe Hioar, Dumitru Postovan, Gheorghe Ciobanu, Mihai Cotorobai, Ion M rgineanu, Vasile Vatamanu, Ion Buga, Dumitru Todoroi, Vasile oimaru, Anatol ranu, Sergiu Chirc, Mihai Dimitriu, Ion Bor evici, Mihai P tra, Eugen Paslaru, Nicolae Misail, Valentin Colun, Dumitru Puntea, Anatol Chiriac, Gheorghe Grosu, Alecu Reni, Petru Muntean, Valeriu Matei, Ion Ungureanu, Aurel Saulea, Ion Munteanu, Ion Chiriac, Ion Negur, Vasile Para, Tudor Negru, Tudor opa, Ion Ciuntu, Ion Lapaci, Ion Madan, Ion Palii, Ion Batcu, Ion Popa. Excerpt: Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov (Russian: ), (born October 23, 1941) is the President of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, also known as Transnistria. He has held this post since 1991. Igor Smirnov was born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Soviet Union (now in the Russian Federation) during World War II. He was the son of Nikolai Stepanovich Smirnov, a worker within the Soviet Communist Party apparatus and Zinaida Grigorevna Smirnova, a journalist and newspaper editor. As the Party promoted Nikolai Stepanovich to ever more important positions, the family moved from Petropavlosk to the Ukrainian SSR, where the Red Army had recently expelled the Nazi German military. The Smirnovs initially benefited from Nikolai Stepanovichs successeshe reached the position of First Secretary...
