Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria
 Major General Ruslan Mova, the current Minister of Internal Affairs, in 2017. | |
| Formation | 5 March 1991 |
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| Type | police agency |
| Headquarters | 68 Manilov Street, Tiraspol |
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Official language | Russian |
Minister of Internal Affairs | Major General Ruslan Mova |
| Website | MVD PMR |
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria (Russian: Министерство внутренних дел Приднестровской Молдавской Республики) also known as the Ministry of the Interior is an official government agency of the partially recognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. It is the executive body in implementing defense policies in of the Armed Forces of Transnistria. It is the successor to the Soviet Department of Internal Affairs Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (PMSSR) The current Minister of Internal Affairs is Major General Ruslan Mova.[1]
History of the Ministry
On March 5, 1991, the Government of the PMSSR approved the creation of a Department of Internal Affairs of the PMSSR. Between September to December 1991, Transnistrian cities began to establish local police departments which are affiliated to the national agency. By decree of the Supreme Council of the newly formed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic on September 8, 1992, a new structure of the state administration bodies were appoved, including the renaming of the Department of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PMR. Initially, the ministry's headquarters staff was only made up of 18 units.[2][3]
Educationional Institutions
- Kutuzov Tiraspol Juridical Institute
- Dzerzhinsky Republican Cadets Corps[4]
- Makarenko Republican Educational Complex
List of Ministers
The following is a list of ministers of defense of Transnistria from 1991–Present:
- Major General Yuri Grosul (May 6, 1991 – July 1992)
- Lieutenant General Yuri Ovsyannikov (July 1992 – April 1994)
- Colonel Ivan Fuchedzi (April 1994 – February 1991)
- Major General Sergei Petrov (February 1997 – July 1998)
- Colonel Vladimir Kurisko (July 1998 – February 2002)
- Major General Alexander Korolev (February 2002 – December 2006)
- Major General Vadim Krasnoselsky (December 2006 – February 2012)[5]
- Major General Sergei Monul (February 2012 – November 2013)
- Major General Gennady Kuzmichev (November 2013 – December 2015)
- Major General Stanislav Romanyuk (December 2015 – December 2016)
- Major General Ruslan Mova (December 2016 – Present)