Mircea Snegur
First President of Moldova
Timeline - Snegur in the record
5 events from the Ivanov's Ghost archive.
Mircea Snegur is born in a village of the Moldavian SSR and trains as an agronomist.
President since 3 September 1990, Snegur proclaims Moldova's independence from the collapsing USSR. He stays in office until 1 December 1996.
Russia and Moldova sign the ceasefire that freezes the conflict, by most accounts through Yeltsin and Snegur. The agreement binds Russia's 14th Army to strict neutrality and leaves its status and withdrawal to later talks; the line has held for more than thirty years.
Snegur commits Moldovan forces in Transnistria and, in July, signs the ceasefire with Yeltsin that freezes the conflict.
Snegur dies aged 83, a founding figure of a state still caught between Europe and Russia.
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