Vladimir Valerevich Yastrebchak (born 9 October 1979) is the current acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Transnistria

Transnistria

Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...

. He replaced longtime minister Valeriy Anatolievich Litskai

Valeriy Anatolievich Litskai

Valeriy Anatolievich Litskai was the foreign minister of Transnistria from 2000 until July 2008. He was born in Tver in Russia in 1949 and obtained Transnistrian citizenship after Transnistria declared independence....

 on July 1, 2008.

Yastrebchak was born in Tiraspol

Tiraspol

Tiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River...

, and graduated from the law school of the T. G. Shevchenko University

T. G. Shevchenko University

The T.G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria, is the region's main university. It is named after the Ukrainian writer and painter Taras Shevchenko and offers internationally accredited courses in partnerships with universities in Russia.The university has 14 faculties and...

 in 2001, after which he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He became First Deputy Minister there on February 14, 2007.

He speaks a number of languages fluently including English and French.

Yastrebchak is of Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

descent and is married.

External links

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (official website)