Nina Shtanski - former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized republic

In the post-Soviet space politics, asusually is a purely masculine affair. However, on this dull gray field from time to time there are bright, spectacular women who delight the eyes of ordinary people. One of them was Nina Shtanski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika from 2012 to 2016. She not only worked conscientiously in the diplomatic field, but also engaged in teaching and research activities, and also successfully tried herself as a fashion model.

Mysterious Nina

Nina Shtanski’s biography ismysterious and uncharted territory. In her interviews, a woman politician rarely spreads about her personal life, and very little can be learned from official sources about the early years of its formation.

Nina Shtanski was born in 1977 in Tiraspol, the current capital of the PMR. The childhood and youth of the heroine coincide with the period of the height of the conflict on the territory of Transnistria.

The girl grew up in a preserved conditioncivil confrontation, and her worldview was based on very specific realities. The age of majority of Nina Shtanski almost coincided with the cessation of hostilities and the formation of the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic.

Spectacular, prominent girl stood out amongpeers, however, while hoping not only for their appearance. She enters the law faculty of Transnistrian State University and successfully masters the entire course of the future lawyer.

Climbing to the heights of power

Having successfully graduated, Nina Shtanski throughsome 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, which are very nervous about PMR, simply call her secretary.

In the Supreme Council, Nina Shtanski worked sevenyears, showing high responsibility and efficiency, and gradually rose higher and higher on the career ladder. From a simple clerk, the girl has grown to assistant to the speaker of the Supreme Council, and then she received a more responsible post of political adviser.

In 2009, the fateful acquaintanceambitious young Nina Shtansky with the future leader of the TMR Yevgeny Shevchuk. Then he carried the duties of a deputy, and also headed the Revival movement created by him. Since 2009, she has been working as an advisor to Shevchuk, and at the same time she has been teaching at the Transnistrian State University and the Tiraspol Interregional University.

Diplomatic work

Nina Shtanski made the right choice by putting intime for the elevation of Yevgeny Shevchuk. The politician made a bold leap into the upper echelons of power and managed to get elected president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic. One can argue about the ephemerality and vulnerability of the Transdniestrian situation in the world, depending on Russia, but the people of the Shtansky 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.

После избрания Шевчука президентом этой работой on the construction of the state in the PMR and took a young, ambitious woman. In 2011, Nina Shtanski was appointed Special Presidential Representative for International Affairs and Negotiation Processes.

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 with 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 normal diplomatic channels. In such conditions, the chief diplomat of the country has to show particular ingenuity and resourcefulness for solving particularly acute issues of relations with other countries.

Chief Negotiator and Deputy Prime Minister

Responsible for the country's foreign policy NinaShtanski was appointed by President Shevchuk to head the Transnistrian delegation for the 5 + 2 negotiations on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. The situation was initially stalemate, the parties had completely different ideas about the goals and objectives of the negotiations, so the zero result of this mission was predetermined in advance and did not become miscalculation by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Be that as it may, the PMR de facto is realexisting state, which should have some kind of relations with neighboring countries, to import and export export products. Taking into account all the difficulties of these issues, Yevgeny Shevchuk gave Nina Shtanski even greater powers by appointing her deputy chairman of the MRT for foreign policy.

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

Cut off from Russia by the Squarepower Transnistria was practically in the conditions of external blockade. However, Nina Shtanski did what she could in this situation and decently resigned in 2016 in connection with the maternity leave.

A family

In 2015 there was a marriage of the MinisterForeign Affairs and the President of the PMR. Nina Shtanski and the President of Transnistria officially legitimized their relationship. In 2016, they had a daughter, Sophia, after which the First Lady withdrew from government activities and took up the newborn. In addition, Nina Shtanski has a daughter, Yang, from her first marriage.

A beautiful, bright woman has repeatedly become the object of attention of many media. Photos of Nina Shtanski regularly decorated articles related to issues of Transdnistrian Moldavian Republic.