Dmitry Yuryevich Soin (russian: link=no, Дмитрий Юрьевич Соин; born 7 August 1969) is a Transnistrian sociologist and politician.

Biography

Dmitry Soin was born on 7 August 1969 in the city of Tiraspol, in the

Moldavian SSR The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( ro, Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 1940 ...

of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. He fought in the Transnistria War and afterwards served in the Armed Forces of Transnistria from 1993 to 2007, retiring with the rank of

lieutenant colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colone ...

. In 1994, Moldovan authorities brought criminal charges of murder against Soin, who killed a Tiraspol resident with a service weapon in a claimed act of self-defense. Soin was declared an internationally wanted suspect by

Interpol The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cri ...

in 2004. From 2010 to 2015, Soin was a member of the

Supreme Council of Transnistria The Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic ( ro, Sovietul Suprem al Republicii Moldovenești Nistrene, Moldovan Cyrillic: Советул Супрем ал Републичий Молдовенешть Нистрене; russian ...

, representing his party, Proriv. He was also director of the Che Guevara School of Political Leadership. In 2014, Soin moved to Moscow, Russia. Since 2018, Soin has been a

Russian nationalist Russian nationalism is a form of nationalism that promotes Russian cultural identity and unity. Russian nationalism first rose to prominence in the early 19th century, and from its origin in the Russian Empire, to its repression during early B ...

activist, a leader of the

Russian All-People's Union The Russian All-People's Union (ROS; russian: Российский общенародный союз; РОС; ''Rossiyskiy obshchenarodnyy soyuz'', ''ROS'') is a Russian conservative political party formed in October 1991. In 2001, it merged into ...

and an ex-leader of the Rodina political party led by

Sergey Baburin Sergey Nikolayevich Baburin (russian: Серге́й Николаевич Бабурин, born 31 January 1959) is a Russian nationalist politician, member of the State Duma of the first, second and fourth convocations where he served in th ...

U.S. sanctions

On 10 December 2021, the

U.S. Department of the Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and t ...

added Soin to its

Specially Designated Nationals The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, also known as the SDN List, is a United States government sanctions/embargo measure targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, a ...

(SDN) list. Individuals on the list have their assets blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them.

References

External links

Weapons Smuggling And Youth Cults In The Country That Doesn't Exist

TRANSNISTRIAN LEGISLATURE WILL FOCUS ON COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA, SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA

TV debate between Russia's presidential candidates on Channel One

2015 Nations in Transit Report on Moldova
1969 births Living people People from Tiraspol Transnistrian politicians Moldovan people convicted of murder Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List {{Transnistria-stub