Olga Cebotari Explained

Olga Cebotari
Office1:Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova
for Reintegration
Term Start1:9 November 2020
Term End1:6 August 2021
Successor1:Vladislav Kulminski
President1:Igor Dodon
Maia Sandu
Citizenship:
Profession:diplomat
Birth Date:4 January 1992
Birth Place:Chișinău, Moldova
Party:Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova
Alma Mater:Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Primeminister1:Ion Chicu
Aureliu Ciocoi (acting)
Predecessor1:Cristina Lesnic

Olga Cebotari (born 4 January 1992) is a Moldovan politician and diplomat. She served as Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of the Republic of Moldova in the Chicu Cabinet.[1]

Career

Olga Cebotari was born in 1992 in Chișinău.[2] She studied International Relations at the Russian University of Friendship of Peoples, Faculty of "Human and Social Sciences", Moscow, Russian Federation (from 2010 to 2014). In 2016 Cebotari graduated her master's degree in world politics at the diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Faculty of ‘International relations and International Law’. In 2020 she completed her doctoral studies at the diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the specialty “political issues in International relations, Global and Regional Development”.[3]

From 2017 to 2019 Olga Cebotari was director of the “Center for support of Moldavian Youth” in Moscow, the Russian Federation. Since 1 February 2020 she has been appointed deputy director of the Economic Department, Executive Committee in the Commonwealth of Independent States. On 9 November 2020 she became Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of Moldova and served his position until 5 August 2021. On December 31, when Prime-minister Ion Chicu resigned, he recommended Cebotari to be the acting Prime-minister. However, the president Maia Sandu chose Aureliu Ciocoi to become the acting Prime-minister.

On 31 January 2022, Cebotari was elected by the Republican Council of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) as a member of the new governing body of the party.[4]

Personal life

Olga Cebotari is married to Romanian businessman Octavian Popa.[5] She speaks Romanian, Russian, Spanish and English. She also holds Russian citizenship.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mld Media Srl . Cine este Olga Cebotari, noul vicepremier pentru Reintegrare . Noi.md . 2022-02-20.
  2. Web site: 10 noiembrie 2020 . DOC/ Vicepremiera pentru reintegrare Olga Cebotari ar deține cetățenia Federației Ruse – Ziarul de Gardă . Zdg.md . 2020-11-10 . 2022-02-20.
  3. Web site: 31 decembrie 2020 . ULTIMA ORĂ/ Maia Sandu l-a numit pe Aurel Ciocoi prim-ministru interimar – Ziarul de Gardă . Zdg.md . 2022-02-20.
  4. Web site: Olga Cebotari și Maxim Lebedinschi au vizitat raionul Sîngerei. February 15, 2022.
  5. Web site: Profile: Olga Cebotari . Profiles.rise.md . 2022-02-20.
  6. Web site: Redacția . Biroul Politici de Reintegrare confirmă, indirect, Olga Cebotari are dublă cetățenie - Zona de Securitate . Zonadesecuritate.md . 2020-11-10 . 2022-02-20.