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Petru Pascari (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Паскарь, romanizedPyotr Andreyevich Paskar; born 22 September 1929)[1] is a Soviet and Moldovan politician. Petru Pascari was on two occasions the prime minister of the Moldavian SSR: 24 April 1970 – 1 August 1976 (1st time) and 10 January – 26 May 1990 (2nd time).

Biography

Petru Pascari was born in the small village of Stroenți (Stroiești) in the north of Transnistria, in Rîbnița District.

From 1946 to 1949, he worked at a wine-making technical school in the village of Saharna before enrolling in the Chisinau Agricultural Institute (now State Agrarian University of Moldova). For ten years after he worked as an agronomist before becoming a minister in the cabinet. In December 1962, he became Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. He served his first stinct as premier in April 1970, at the same time serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Moldavian SSR. In July 1976, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of Gosplan. In early 1990, he returned to Moldova to serve as premier for a second time.[2]

In June 1990, he became a personal pensioner and has since lived in Moscow.[3]

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Political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR
10 January 1990 – 26 May 1990
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR
24 August 1970 – 1 August 1976
Succeeded by


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