| Nina Shtanski | |
| Office: | First Lady of Transnistria |
| President: | Yevgeny Shevchuk |
| Term Label: | In role |
| Term Start: | 19 September 2015 |
| Term End: | 16 December 2016 |
| Predecessor: | Vacant |
| Successor: | Svetlana Krasnoselskaya |
| Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start1: | 24 January 2012 |
| Term End1: | 14 September 2015 |
| Predecessor1: | Vladimir Yastrebchak |
| Successor1: | Vitaly Ignatiev |
| Birth Date: | 10 April 1977 |
| Birth Place: | Tiraspol, Soviet Union |
| Party: | Independent |
| Spouse: | Yevgeny Shevchuk |
| Alma Mater: | Transnistrian State University |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
Nina Viktorovna Shtanski (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Nina Ștanski; Russian: Нина Викторовна Штански; born 10 April 1977) is a Transnistrian former state politician and public figure. She has been the Deputy Prime Minister for the International Cooperation of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic from 24 January 2012 to 2 September 2015. Ph.D. (2012). She became an honoured foreign service officer of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in 2012. She held the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
She was born 10 April 1977 in the city of Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Transnistrian State University. TG Shevchenko.[1] Shtanski has spoken about being of Polish descent.[2] 24 December 2012 she defended her thesis for the degree of Candidate of Political Sciences on the theme "Problems of the conflict in Transnistria / Moldova: International Aspects".
From 2002 to 2009 she worked at the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the following positions:
From 2009 to 2011, involved in social and educational activities, is an adviser to Evgeny Shevchuk - at that time a deputy of the Supreme Council of Transnistria and the President of the social movement "Renaissance." She has taught at the Institute of History, State and Law of the Transnistrian State University. TG Shevchenko Tiraspol and inter-university.[4]
30 December 2011, after the inauguration of the President of TMR EV Shevchuk, appointed a special representative of the President of the TMR in the negotiating process, interaction with the diplomatic missions and international organizations.
24 January 2012 appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Dniester Moldavian Republic.[5]
1 February 2012 by the Decree of the President of the TMR was charged a special representative of the President of the TMR in the negotiating process, interaction with the diplomatic missions and international organizations.
6 November 2012 by the Decree of the President of Transnistria Yevgeny Shevchuk appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the PMR for international cooperation, while maintaining the current position of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR.
She voiced her support to the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and asked Russia to do the same with Transnistria.[6]
A member of the Security Council under the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
Nina Shtanski gave up her government position in September 2015 when she married Yevgeny Shevchuk, the President of Transnistria.