Dumitru Diacov

Dumitru Diacov
President of Parliament
In office April 23, 1998 – March 20, 2001
Preceded by	Dumitru Moţpan
Succeeded by	Eugenia Ostapciuc
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 1994–2001
In office 2005 – May 2009
In office July – September 2009
In office 2010–2014
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Personal details
Born	(1952-02-10) 10 February 1952 Kargapolie, Kurgan Oblast
Political party	Democratic Party (Alliance for European Integration) Agrarian Party of Moldova
Other political affiliations	Communist Party
Alma mater	Belarusian State University
Profession	Journalist
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy

Dumitru Diacov (also transliterated from Russian as Dmitry Dyakov or Dmitri Diakov (Дмитрий Дьяков)) (born February 10, 1952, Kargapolie (ru:Каргаполье), Kurgan Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Moldovan politician, Member of the Moldovan Parliament.

Biography

In 1974, Dumitru Diacov graduated from Belarusian State University and then worked for TeleRadio-Moldova. After 1984, he worked as correspondent in Chişinău for Komsomolskaya Pravda and then for Komsomol and CPSU in Moscow (1986-1989). Between 1989-1993, he worked for Information Telegraph Agency of Russia in Bucharest.

Dumitru Diacov was a Moldovan MP (1994–2001, 2005-May 2009, July 2009 – 2010) and the president of the Moldovan Parliament (April 23, 1998 – March 20, 2001).

He was president of the Democratic Party of Moldova (1997-June 2009) and later has been the honorary president.

External links

• Ex-Communist speaker elected leader of opposition party in Moldova