Mikhail Burla

Mikhail Burla
Speaker of Supreme Council
In office
13 June 2012 – 23 December 2015
Preceded by Anatoliy Kaminski
Succeeded by Vadim Krasnoselski
Personal details
Born (1957-11-22) 22 November 1957
Storozhynets Raion, Soviet
Union (now Ukraine)
Political party Renewal

Mikhail Porfirovich Burla ((Russian: Михаи́л Порфирович Бурла; Ukrainian: Михайло Порфірович Бурла, Mykhaylo Profirovych Burla; born 22 November 1957 in Storozhynets Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a politician in Transnistria and the chairman of the country's main opposition party,[1] Renewal (Obnovleniye, sometimes translated as Renovation).[2]

He is a member of Transnistria's parliament, where he has been vice-speaker since 22 July 2009, and an ally of fellow party-members Yevgeni Shevchuk (speaker of parliament from December 2005 until July 2009) and Anatoliy Kaminski (speaker since 2009).

On 13 June 2012 Mikhail Burla was elected Speaker of Supreme Council to replace Anatoliy Kaminski who resigned following his failure during the Presidential elections of 2011.

Burla was born on 22 November 1957 in Storozhynets Raion of the Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine.[3] He is an economic geographer by profession and has spent much of his career teaching at T.G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol. He is married with two daughters.

References

  1. ↑ British Helsinki Human Rights Group: Transnistria 2006 report
  2. ↑ Renewal, Pridnestrovie's reformist opposition party
  3. ↑ Burla official biography on Transnistrian Supreme Soviet site
Political offices
Preceded by
Anatoliy Kaminski		 Speaker of Supreme Council
2012–2015 		Succeeded by
Vadim Krasnoselski


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