Nina Shtanski
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Nina Shtanski, Former Transnistrian (Secessionist) Foreign Minister (2012-2015) and First Lady of Transnistria
Nina Viktorovna Shtanski (Romanian: Nina Ștanski; Russian: Нина Викторовна Штански; born 10 April 1977) is a Transnistrian former state politician and public figure. She has been the Deputy Prime Minister for the International Cooperation of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic from 24 January 2012 to 2 September 2015. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2012. She became an honoured foreign service officer of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in 2012. She held the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
On 24 January 2012, she was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Dniester Moldavian (Moldovan) Republic.
On 1 February 2012, by the Decree of the President of the TMR, she was charged a special representative of the President of the TMR in the negotiating process, interaction with the diplomatic missions and international organizations.
On 6 November 2012, by the Decree of the President of Transnistria Yevgeny Shevchuk, she was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the PMR for international cooperation, while maintaining the current position of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR.
She voiced her support to the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and asked Russia to do the same with Transnistria.
She was a member of the Security Council under the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian (Transnistrian Moldovan) Republic.
Nina Shtanski gave up her government position in September 2015, when she married Yevgeny Shevchuk, the President of Transnistria. She had her first child, a daughter, outside of marriage; it was widely believed at that time that the father was Yevgeny Shevchuk, and the Transnistrian media was presenting the two as close. Shevchuk and Shtanski announced their forthcoming marriage because they were expecting their second child after she got pregnant again. In January 2016, she gave birth to her second child, after the marriage with Yevgeny Shevchuk.
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