Yevgeny Shevchuk

Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk or Evgheni Vasilievici Şevciuk  Евгéний Васильевич Шевчýк,  Євген Васильович Шевчýк born 19 June 1968 in Rîbniţa, Moldavian SSR) is an ethnic Ukrainian and the President of Transnistria. He has been a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Transnistria from 2000 until his election as president in 2011. Furthermore, he was speaker of Pridnestrovian Supreme Soviet from 2005-2009, and the leader of the opposition party Renewal until 2010.
Yevgeny Shevchuk is a lawyer who has worked in government and private business. His biography profile describes him as "social democratic technocrat with a European outlook, and a man of profound democratic beliefs". As part of the minority opposition in parliament prior to December 2005, he spearheaded a reform drive by his party to introduce changes to Transnistria's electoral code. Among the changes were a requirement that purely technical qualifications be used as the basis for selecting polling station chairmen and a rule prohibiting state-owned media outlets (radio, TV, newspapers, etc.) from publishing results of polls and forecasts related to elections, so as to not influence free voter choice. This was reported in the United States State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2005.
In a 2005 report the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe referred to Shevchuk in the context of democratic reform, noting that Transnistria is moving towards more pluralism and highlighted the Transnistrian parliament's own initiatives on the reform of the political system which were spearheaded by Shevchuk's bloc. After that the European Parliament banned Shevchuk from entry to the EU countries. 
On 22 July 2009, Shevchuk resigned from his post as speaker of parliament. Anatoly Kaminski, who was vice-speaker under Shevchuk and is vice chairman of Shevchuk's Renewal party, was the only nominee to succeed him. Mikhail Burla, leader of Renewal and Chairman of the Committee for economic policy, budget and finance, was elected as the new vice-speaker. Shevchuk cited a controversial attempt to revise the county's constitution by president Igor Smirnov as the main reason for his resignation.
In December 2011, Shevchuk was elected president of Transnistria. He won the first round of the presidential elections on 11 December, polling higher than either the sitting president Igor Smirnov or the Kremlin-backed Supreme Soviet chairman Anatolii Kaminskii. He then won the second round of voting with over 75% support on 25 December. He was inaugurated on 30 December 2011