President signed a Decree appointing Vitaly Ignatiev Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. Pursuant to the signed document Vitaly Ignatiev is also entrusted with functions of Special Representative of the President for the negotiation process, interaction with diplomatic missions and international organizations.
Vitaly Viktorovich IGNATIEV
Born on July 5, 1980, in Kotovsk, Odessa Oblast, USSR.
In 1997 he successfully graduated from the secondary school No.6 in Rybnitsa.
In 2002 he graduated with honours from the Sociology Department of the History Faculty of T.G. Shevchenko Pridnestrovian Moldavian University.
In 2012 he completed with honours the master’s degree programme of the National University “Odessa Law Academy”. Master in international law.
Since September 2002 he has been working in the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in various positions: a desk officer of the Information Department of the Foreign Ministry of the PMR, an adviser-speechwriter, a press secretary, a head of the Department for Media Relations, a deputy head of the Information and Analytical Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PMR.
On December 20, 2010 he was appointed as an Acting Deputy Foreign Minister of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic by the Order of the President of the PMR.
On July 8 2011 he was appointed as a Deputy Foreign Minister of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic by the Order of the President of the PMR.
On February 7, 2012 he was appointed as a Deputy Foreign Minister of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic by the Decree of the President of the PMR.
On February 8, 2012 he was conferred a diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Second Class by the Decree of the President of the PMR.
On the February 16, 2012 pursuant to a presidential decree by the decision of the emergency meeting of the Joint Control Commission Ignatiev V.V. was approved as a member of the Joint Control Commission of Pridnestrovie.
Since 2006 he has taught a number of specialized courses at the Department of Political Science and Political Processes of the Institute of History, State, and Law of T.G. Shevchenko Pridnestrovian State University.
On December 30, 2015 by the Presidential Decree he was appointed as an Acting Foreign Minister of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, was entrusted with functions of Special Representative of the President for the negotiation process, interaction with diplomatic missions and international organizations.
Since 2014 he has been a postgraduate student of Chair of World Politics at MGIMO University.
He was awarded the state awards: Certificate of the President of the PMR, Medals “For Labour Distinction”, “20 years of the PMR”, “For Labour Valour”, “To the Participant of the peacekeeping operation in Pridnestrovie”.
Married, has a daughter.
