Elena Bomeshko

Elena Vasilievna Bomeshkois a Transnistrian politician, and the former Minister of education of Transnistria.

Biography

Elena Bomeshko supported a policy discriminating against school-children using the Romanian alphabet and supported the promotion of a separate Moldavian language written in the Cyrillic script. By July 2004, 4 of the 6 schools in the country teaching the Romanian alphabet were closed.[1]

According to her defenders, she has merely done her job of upholding the Transnistrian legislation. It follows that since Moldova does not recognize Transnistria, nor does it recognize the validity of Transnistria's own legislation, so in the eyes of Moldova, Bomeshko is failing to obey Moldova's laws by following Transnistria's.

In 2004, she announced the closure of some Romanian-language schools using the Latin alphabet. Amid international criticism, the decision was later reversed.

Bomeshko was replaced in 2007 as minister of education by Maria Rafailovna Pashchenko.[2] In January 2009, as advisor to the president, she pleaded in favor of state commissioning in education.[3] In 2010, she announced a new monument in honor of the soldiers who lost their lives for the country, even though the country has 2/3 of its monuments that need renovation.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Newsline - July 20, 2004, Rferl.org, 20 July 2004
  2. ↑ Bio of Maria Rafailovna Pashchenko, minister of education
  3. ↑ Transnistrian authorities want to return to practice of state commissioning in education, Ipn.md, 24 January 2009
  4. ↑ Transnistrians erect monuments “to soldiers who lost their lives while defending Russian and Transnistrian land”, Ipn.md, 5 March 2010


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