Mikhail Burla
Mikhail Burla | |
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Speaker of Supreme Council | |
In office 13 June 2012 – 23 December 2015 | |
Preceded by | Anatoliy Kaminski |
Succeeded by | Vadim Krasnoselski |
Personal details | |
Born |
Storozhynets Raion, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | 22 November 1957
Political party | Renewal |
Mikhail Porfirovich Burla (Russian: Михаи́л Порфирович Бурла; Ukrainian: Михайло Порфірович Бурла, Mykhaylo Profirovych Burla; born 22 November 1957 in Storozhynets Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Transnistrian politician and the chairman of the country's governing political party,[1] Renewal (Obnovleniye, sometimes translated as Renovation).[2]
Biography
Burla was born on 22 November 1957 in Storozhynets Raion of the Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine.[3] He is an economic geographer by profession and spent much of his career teaching at T.G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol. He is also married and has two daughters.
Burla is a member of Transnistria's Supreme Council, where he has been vice-speaker since 22 July 2009, and an ally of Yevgeny Shevchuk (speaker of parliament from December 2005 until July 2009) and Anatoliy Kaminski (speaker since 2009).
On 13 June 2012, Mikhail Burla was elected Speaker of Supreme Council to replace Anatoliy Kaminski who resigned following his failure in the presidential elections of 2011.
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- (in Romanian) Mihai Burla, un român originar din Cernăuţi, ales preşedinte al Sovietului Suprem de la Tiraspol
- (in Russian) БУРЛА Михаил Порфирович