Oleg Gudymo

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Oleg Gudymo (Cyrillic: Олег ГУДЫМО), born 11 September 1944 in Kazakhstan, is a politician in Transnistria and a member of the Transnistrian parliament. From 1993 until 2005 he was first deputy minister for national security. He is major general of the Transnistrian ministry of state security. He has also become a member of the Joint Control Commission for maintaining peace in the zone of the Moldo-Pridnestrovian armed conflict on December 28, 1992. He hold this post until now. In December 2005 Gudymo was elected to the Transnistrian parliament and became chairman of the parliamentarian security committee. In April 2007 the Committee for Security, Defense and Peacekeeping merged with the Committee for Law-enforcement Agencies, combating Corruption, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens, and Gudymo neither became chairman nor member of the new committee.

He is the founder and leader of the political party People's Will of Pridnestrovie (Narodnaya Volya) which advocates independent statehood and international recognition for Transnistria.