Nina Shtanski - former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized republic

In the post-Soviet space, politics, as a rule, is a purely masculine affair. However, on this dull gray field from time to time there are bright, spectacular women who delight the eyes of the townsfolk. One of them was Nina Shtanski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika from 2012 to 2016. She not only conscientiously worked in the diplomatic field, but also engaged in teaching and research activities, and also successfully tried herself as a model.

Mysterious Nina

Biography of Nina Shtanski is a mysterious and unexplored territory. In her interviews, a woman politician seldom spreads about her personal life, and very little can be learned from official sources about the early years of her becoming.

Nina Shtanski was born in 1977 in Tiraspol, today's capital of the PMR. Childhood and youth of the heroine coincide with the period of the height of the conflict on the territory of Transnistria. The girl grew up in an environment of conserved civil confrontation, and her worldview was formed on the basis of very concrete realities. Nina Shtanski's centenary almost coincided with the cessation of hostilities and the formation of the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic.

Spectacular, prominent girl stood out among her contemporaries, but at the same time she hoped not only for her appearance. She enrolls in the Faculty of Law of the Transnistrian State University and successfully masteres the entire course of the future lawyer.

Climb to the heights of power

Successfully graduating from school, Nina Shtanski after a while gets to work in the supreme body of the PMR - the Supreme Council. She began her career in power in 2002 as a leading specialist in the apparatus of the parliament.

Moldovan media, very nervously related to the PMR, simply called her secretary.

In the Supreme Council, Nina Shtanski worked for seven years, showing high responsibility and efficiency and gradually rising higher up the career ladder. From a simple clerk, the girl grew to an assistant speaker of the Supreme Council, and then received a more responsible post of political adviser.

In 2009, the fateful acquaintance of the young ambitious Nina Shtansky with the future PMR leader Evgeny Shevchuk took place. Then he carried the duties of a deputy, and also headed the movement "Renaissance" created by him. An active, businesswoman of the parliament since 2009 began to work as an advisor to Shevchuk, and in parallel was engaged in teaching activities at the Transnistrian State University and the Tiraspol Interregional University.

Diplomatic work

Nina Shtanski made the right choice, putting in her time on the rise of Eugene Shevchuk. The politician made a daring jerk to the upper echelons of power and managed to get elected as president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic. How much can you talk about the ephemeral and vulnerability of the situation of the PMR in the world, depending on Russia, but the people of the generation of Shtanski simply did not know another homeland, and they perceive their republic as a real state with the right to exist and for whose sake it is worthwhile to work.

After Shevchuk was elected president, this work on the construction of the state in the PMR was undertaken by a young, ambitious woman. In 2011, Nina Shtanski was appointed special representative of the President on international cooperation and negotiation processes.

A year later, the charming brunette received a responsible post in the government of the republic, becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs of Transnistria. As for any unrecognized state, the issue of international relations for the PMR is particularly acute, the situation is complicated by the inability of direct official contacts with foreign states through ordinary diplomatic channels. The chief diplomat of the country in these conditions has to show special ingenuity and resourcefulness to deal with particularly acute issues of relations with other countries.

Chief negotiator and vice-premier

Responsible for the country's foreign policy, Nina Shtanski was appointed President Shevchuk head of the Transnistrian delegation for negotiations in the 5 + 2 format on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. The situation was inherently stalemate, the parties had a completely different view even of the goals and objectives of the negotiations, so the zero result of this mission was predetermined in advance and did not become a miscalculation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Be that as it may, the PMR is de facto a real state, which should have some kind of relations with neighboring countries, import and export exports. Given all the complexities of these issues, Yevgeny Shevchuk gave Nina Shtansky even more authority, appointing her deputy chairman of the PMR for foreign policy.

The last years of the woman's existence at the head of the republic's foreign policy coincided with the conflict in Ukraine. Cut off from Russia by the territory of an ungovernable state, Transnistria turned out to be practically in conditions of an external blockade. However, Nina Shtanski did what she could in this situation and dignified resignation in 2016 due to maternity leave.

A family

In 2015, a marriage took place between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President of the PMR. Nina Shtanski and the president of Transnistria officially legalized their relationship. In 2016, they had a daughter, Sofia, after which the first lady moved away from government activities and took up a newborn. In addition, Nina Shtanski has Jan's daughter from her first marriage.

A beautiful, bright woman has often been the object of attention of many media. Photo Nina Shtanski regularly adorned articles related to issues of PMR.