11 Facts About Petru Lucinschi

Petru Lucinschi currently serves as the founder and head of the Lucinschi Foundation of Strategic Studies and International Relations.

Petru Lucinschi was born on 27 January 1940 in Radulenii Vechi village, Soroca County, Kingdom of Romania into the family of Kirill Vasilievich Lucinschi.

Petru Lucinschi has a PhD in Philosophy from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

From 1971, Petru Lucinschi was a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Moldavian SSR.

Petru Lucinschi was the only native Moldovan in the leadership of Communist Party of Moldova at that time, when the leadership of Moldavian SSR was almost completely in the hands of people from outside the republic or Transnistrians.

In 1978, Ivan Bodiul sent him to work for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, where Petru Lucinschi remained until 1986.

From 1986 to 1989, Petru Lucinschi was second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.

Petru Lucinschi was often seen as the lesser evil to Vladimir Voronin from the Party of Communists.

Over his four years in power, the Petru Lucinschi administration was marked by fierce confrontations in Parliament.

Petru Lucinschi served until 2001, when he called a snap election, and the Parliament voted in favour of Vladimir Voronin.

Petru Lucinschi was friendly with Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, as they had worked together in the Soviet government and had been acquainted as leaders of their republics since 1970, when Lucinschi visited Baku.