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Candidate of the Republican Socio-political Movement “Ravnopravie (Equality)” (MRR) |
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Journalist, head of the Congress of Russian communities of Moldova, chair of MRR
Electoral program Biographical Data
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Slogan
No one will help the national minorities if they do not help themselves!
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Election Results
In the first round of elections got
4,478 of the valid votes (1.8%) that is insufficient to enter the runoff elections for mayor of Chisinau.
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Biographical Data
Valerii Klimenco was born in 1953 in the region Ural of the Russian Federation. He is of Russian nationality. After he graduated from the secondary school in Ukraine, he did his military service as a submarine in the Northern Fleet of the USSR. He took part in long lasting military campaigns. Later, he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the “I. Franko” University in L’vov. He worked in the Ukrainian and Moldovan media. Since 1985 he has studied history and applied sociology and in 1993 he got his PhD from a Moscow university. In 1997 he set up the Russian Community in Chisinau, and later the Congress of Russian Communities in Moldova. In 1998 he was elected Chairperson of the Republican Socio-political Movement “Ravnopravie” (Equality), on whose party list he was elected as municipal councilor. Since 2002 he has been member of the Council of Co-nationals under the Russian Duma. He is married and has one daughter. He speaks Russian and Ukrainian.
