predecessor successor children birth_place religion party office primeminister birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
petru lucinschi ivan călin -lrb- acting -rrb- gheorghe lavranciuc mihai ghimpu -lrb- acting -rrb- mihai ghimpu ion costaş oleg valentina corjova , soviet union -lrb- now moldova -rrb- eastern orthodoxy communist -lrb- 1993 -- present -rrb- party -lrb- before 1991 -rrb- party of communists president affairs of moldova president of parliament minister of home dumitru pascari braghiş vasile tarlev zinaida greceanîi ivan călin petru 25 may 1941 7 april 2001 12 may 2009 1988 taisia mihailovna vladimir voronin 2006.jpg vladimir voronin
 11 september 2009 28 august 2009 6 june 1990 vladimir voronin Владимир Воронин cooperation social sciences soviet academy of the ministry of internal affairs college all-union institute for food industry academy of
vladimir voronin

vladimir nicolaevici voronin -lrb- , , `` vladimir nikolaevič voronin '' -rrb- -lrb- born may 25 , 1941 -rrb- is a moldovan politician .
he was the third president of moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the first secretary of the party of communists of the republic of moldova -lrb- pcrm -rrb- since 1994 .
he was europe 's first democratically elected communist party head of state after the dissolution of the eastern bloc .
