Tatiana Mikhailovna Turanskaya (; born November 20, 1972) is a Transnistrian politician who served as

Prime Minister of Transnistria The chairman of the government of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic is the head of government of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (Transnistria), that is ''de jure'' part of Moldova. The current prime minister is Aleksandr ...

from 2013 to 2015. Prior to her tenure as prime minister she was active in the local affairs of

Rîbnița Rîbnița ( or , , ) or Rybnitsa (; ) is a town in the breakaway state, breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria. According to the 2004 Census in Transnistria, 2004 census, it has a population of 53,648. Rîbnița is situated in the northern half ...

, where she rose to become head of the local government. In 2019, she and seven other women associated with President

Yevgeny Shevchuk Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk (, , , mo-Cyrl, Евгени Васильевичь Шевчюк; born 19 June 1968) is a Transnistrian former politician who served as the second President of Transnistria, from 2011 to 2016. He was a deputy to t ...

were sentenced to eight years in prison.

Early life and education

Turanskaya Tatyana Mikhailovna was born in

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (, ; ; ), historically known as Aq Kirmān () or by other names, is a port city in Odesa Oblast, southwestern Ukraine. It is situated on the right bank of the Dniester Estuary leading to the Black Sea, in the historical r ...

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

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, on 20 November 1972. She is a Ukrainian. She graduated from the

Odesa National Economics University Odesa National University of Economics (ONEU, ) is one of the leading universities in Ukraine, founded in 1921 with the aim of training highly qualified specialists in economics and conducting research over a spectrum of economic problems. Hist ...

in 1995.

Career

Turanskaya was a tax inspector in

from 1999 to 2012. She was appointed as deputy head of economic issues in the local administration in Rîbnița in 2012, then as first deputy head two weeks later, acting head on 29 June, and then as head on 30 August. President

appointed Turanskaya as deputy prime minister for regional development on 19 June 2013. Prime Minister

Pyotr Stepanov Pyotr Petrovich Stepanov (; born 2 January 1959) is a Transnistrian politician and was the Prime Minister of Transnistria from 18 January 2012 until 10 July 2013. Stepanov is the first ever Prime Minister of Transnisitra. His nomination was put f ...

resigned in 2013, and Turanskaya was appointed as acting prime minister on 20 June. Shevchuk appointed her as prime minister on 10 July. Maya Parnas was selected to suceed her as prime minister on 13 October 2015. In 2019, Turanskaya and seven other women associated with Shevchuk's government were sentenced to eight years in prison for withholding 30% of the pensions and salaries of state employees in 2015.

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