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 ordinary people. One of them was Nina Shtanski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic from 2012 to 2016. She not only worked conscientiously in the diplomatic field, but also was engaged in teaching and scientific activities, and also successfully tried herself as a model.
Mysterious Nina
The biography of Nina Shtanski is a mysterious and uncharted territory. In her interviews, a female politician rarely talks about her personal life, and very little can be learned from official sources about her early years.
Nina Shtanski was born in 1977 in Tiraspol, today's capital of the PMR. The childhood and youth of the heroine coincide with the height of the conflict in the territory of Transnistria.
The girl grew up in an atmosphere of preserved civil confrontation, and her worldview was formed on the basis of very specific realities. The age of Nina Shtanski almost coincided with the cessation of hostilities and the formation of the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic.
A spectacular, prominent girl stood out among her peers, but at the same time she hoped not only for her appearance. She enters the Faculty of Law of the Transnistrian State University and successfully masters the entire set course of the future lawyer.
Ascent to the heights of power
Having successfully completed her studies, Nina Shtanski after a while gets to work in the supreme organ of the PMR - the Supreme Council. She began her career in power in 2002 with the post of leading specialist of the parliament apparatus.
The Moldovan media, which are very nervous about the PMR, simply call her secretary.
In the Supreme Council, Nina Shtansky worked for seven years, showing high responsibility and hard work and gradually rose 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 Shtanski with the future leader of the PMR Yevgeny Shevchuk took place. Then he carried the duties of a deputy, and also headed the Revival movement that he created. Since 2009, an active, business employee of the parliament began to work as an adviser to Shevchuk, and at the same time she was engaged in teaching at the Transnistrian State University and Tiraspol Interregional University.
Diplomatic work
Nina Shtanski made the right choice, putting at the 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 you can talk about the ephemerality and vulnerability of the TMR in the world, dependence on Russia, but people of the Shtansky generation simply did not know another homeland, and they perceive their republic as a real state, having the right to exist and for the benefit of which it is worth working.
After Shevchuk was elected president, a young, ambitious woman took up this job of building the state in the PMR. In 2011, Nina Shtanski was appointed Special Presidential Representative for International Engagement and Negotiation Processes.
A year later, the charming brunette received a responsible post in the government of the republic, becoming the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Transnistria.
As for any unrecognized state, the issue of international relations for the PMR is especially acute, the situation is complicated by the impossibility of direct official contacts with foreign states through ordinary diplomatic channels. In such circumstances, the country's main diplomat has to be particularly smart and resourceful in addressing particularly sensitive issues in relations with other countries.
Chief Negotiator and Deputy Prime Minister
Nina Shtanski, responsible for the country's foreign policy, was appointed by President Shevchuk the head of the Transnistrian delegation for 5 + 2 negotiations on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. The situation was initially stalemate, the parties had a completely different idea even about the goals and objectives of the negotiations, so that the zero result of this mission was a foregone conclusion and did not become a miscalculation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Be that as it may, Transdniestria is a de facto state that must have some kind of relations with neighboring countries, import imported goods and exported products. Given the complexity of these issues, Evgeny Shevchuk gave Nina Shtanski even greater powers, appointing her deputy chairman of the PMR for foreign policy.
The last years the woman was at the head of the foreign policy of the republic coincided with the conflict in Ukraine.
Transnistria, cut off from Russia by the territory of an independent power, turned out to be practically in conditions of an external blockade. However, Nina Shtanski did what she could in this situation and adequately resigned in 2016 due to maternity leave.
A family
In 2015, the marriage of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President of the PMR took place. Nina Shtanski and the President of Transnistria officially legalized their relationship. In 2016, their daughter Sofia was born, after which the first lady moved away from state activities and took up a newborn. In addition, Nina Shtanski has a daughter, Jan, from her first marriage.
A beautiful, vibrant woman has repeatedly become the object of attention of many media. Photos of Nina Shtanski regularly featured articles related to issues of the PMR.