Ştefan Urâtu

Ştefan Urâtu
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
2010
Personal details
Born January 9, 1951 (1951-01-09) (age 61)
Ustia, Dubăsari
Nationality USSR
Moldova
Political party Liberal Party
Alliance for European Integration (2009–present)
Other political
affiliations
Popular Front of Moldova
Children 3 daughters
Religion Eastern Orthodoxy
Military service
Awards Order of the Republic

Ştefan Urâtu (born January 9, 1951, Ustia) is a politician from Moldova.

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Biography

Ştefan Urâtu studied at the Veterinary and Zootechnics College from Carmanova, Grigoriopol rayon (1966–1967). He carried out his compulsory military service in the Soviet army (1969–1972), in Budapest, Hungary. In 1977, he graduated from the State Pedagogical Institute from Tiraspol, the department of physics and mathematics. Between 1988–1992, Ştefan Urâtu was pro-dean of the department of physics and mathematics of the Tiraspol State University. He has published over 30 scientific articles in the area of physics of metals and applying the radioactive isotopes.[1]

Ştefan Urâtu was a Popular Front of Moldova member of the Republican Council in the Tiraspol section between 1989–1992. He was politically detained together with the "Ilaşcu Group" between June 2 and August 21, 1992.

In 1990, he founds the first non-governmental association — the Committee for Human Rights from Transnistria in the Tiraspol-based section of the Popular Front. Between 1993–2009, he was the chairman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Moldova (elected in 1993, 1998, 2006).[2]

Ştefan Urâtu was an adviser of Mihai Ghimpu after February 12, 2010.[3] He has been a member of the Parliament of Moldova since 2010.[4][5]

He was decorated, by a presidential decree, with Moldova's highest state decoration – the Order of the Republic.[6][7]

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