Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov (; born 24 October 1959) is a

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politician. He is of

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ethnicity. Until 2006, he was the Minister of the Interior of the

Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognized as part of Moldova. It controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dni ...

(PMR). He started to work in the ministry of the interior of the

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in 1985. When the PMR declared independence on 2 September 1990, Korolev continued his work in the same post but under the new government until 2000, when he was appointed the country's minister of the interior. Korolev holds PMR citizenship. In the 2006 PMR presidential election he was elected to the post of Vice President of Transnistria as the running mate of Igor Smirnov. He is the head of the PMR

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. Once a year, he also MC's the annual Miss PMR competition for charity.

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Aleksander Korolev, Minister of Internal Affairs
1959 births Living people Politicians from Wrocław Transnistrian politicians Government ministers of Transnistria Vice presidents of Transnistria {{Moldova-politician-stub