Valeriu Muravschi is a Moldovan politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Moldova

Prime Minister of Moldova

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 between 28 May 1991 and 1 July 1992.

Early life and career

Muravschi was born in Sirota

Sirota

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, Orhei District on 31 July 1949. He graduated from the Facultatea de Economie a Institutul Politehnic „Serghei Lazo" -- the Polytechnic Institute of Economics "Sergei Lazo" -- in Chişinău

Chisinau

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.

After graduation, Muravschi had a series of jobs in various economic ministries for the Moldavian SSR

Moldavian SSR

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: he was a senior economist at the State Committee for Prices from 1971 until 1976, chief of Pricing Section of the Ministry of Industry of Building Materials from 1976 until 1984, head of the Department of Finance from 1984 until 1988, and finally director of the Directorate

Directorate

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 from 1988-1990.
He then entered Mircea Druc

Mircea Druc

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's cabinet and held the posts of Deputy Prime Minister

Deputy Prime Minister

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 and Minister of Finance from 1990 until 1991. He was appointed Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova in 1991.

Afterwards

In 1999, Muravschi founded the National Peasant Party / Christian Democratic and was president of that party until 2002.

On 31 July 1999, for "long and fruitful activity in the state, contributing to the socio-economic development of the republic and high professionalism", Muravschi was awarded the Order Gloria Labor