
Yevgeny Shevchuk
© RIA Novosti. Vladimir Fedorenko
© RIA Novosti. Vladimir Fedorenko
09:11 26/12/2011
TIRASPOL, December 26 (RIA Novosti)
The ex-speaker of the Transdnestr parliament, Yevgeny Shevchuk, will become the breakaway republic’s second president after garnering 73.88 percent of the vote in Sunday’s runoff election, a source in Transdnestr’s Central Election Commission told RIA Novosti, citing preliminary results.