Vladimir Bodnar
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Vladimir Bodnar is a politician and community leader from Transnistria. He is currently co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission [1] which was formed to oversee the negotiated ceasefire following the 1992 War of Transnistria. He is a former member and deputy speaker of parliament [2] (2001 - 2005) and president of the Union of Ukrainians in Pridnestrovie. While in parliament, he was head of the parliamentary committee on security and defense.
Vladimir Bodnar is born in Staraya Ushitsa, Kamenets-Podolsk region of Ukraine on December 26, 1942 [1]. He is an ethnic Ukrainian. He is a staunch opponent of attempts to unify Transnistria and Moldova and has at times advocated the incorporation of Transnistria into Ukraine [3].