Ion Costaș

Ion Costaş

Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 1990–1994
Moldovan Minister of Interior
In office 1990 – 5 February 1992
President	Mircea Snegur
Prime Minister	Mircea Druc Valeriu Muravschi
Succeeded by	Constantin Antoci
Moldovan Minister of Defense
In office 5 February 1992 – 29 July 1992
President	Mircea Snegur
Prime Minister	Valeriu Muravschi
Succeeded by	Pavel Creangă
Personal details
Born	1944 Ţarigrad, Drochia District
Profession	Military
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy

Ion Costaş (b. 1944, Ţarigrad) is a Moldovan soldier and a former Minister of Interior (1990–1992) and Defence (1992).

He is a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.

Biography

Ion Costaş was born in 1944 in the village of Ţarigrad (Drochia District) in a peasant family of Romanian ethnicity. Between 1949-1957, he was with his parents in Kazakhstan, where they had been deported following conviction of 25 years of hard labor (being accused of being accomplice with fascists). He graduated Higher Military Aviation School from Kharkiv (1967), Gagarin Air Force Academy in Moscow (1976) and the Police Academy in Moscow.

During 1967-1984 he worked as aviation officer in the Soviet Army, first as a pilot (1967), squadron commander (1976-1978) and then as deputy commander of joined troops(1978-1980). Becomes regimental commander (1980-1983), with 102 fighters under his direction and then deputy commander of the 14th Army (Soviet Union) on aviation issues.

In 1984 was appointed deputy commander DOSAAF (Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Fleet) RSS Moldavia (Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic), and the following year became commander of the Central Committee of DOSAAF, holding this position until in 1990. He was promoted in October 1988 to the rank of General-Major of the Soviet Army aviation.

In 1990 he was appointed Chairman of Committee Supreme Soviet of RSS Moldavia for State Security and Military Affairs, and in September 1990 - a member of the Presidential Council of the Republic of Moldova. Between 1990-1992, General Ion Costaş served as Minister of Internal Affairs in the Government of Moldova.

State by Presidential Decree no. 20 of 5 February 1992, Division General Ion Costaş was appointed as the first Minister of Defence of the Republic, but was dismissed (along with Anatol Plugaru, Security Minister) after Moldovan troops lost the fighting to restore part of Moldova Transnistria against Transnistrian paramilitary troops and 14th Russian Army, led by General Aleksandr Lebed.

He was then appointed as military attache in Romania, where he was recalled in October 1993 and went into reserve.

Ion Costaş was awarded the order "Service in the armed forces of their native country" grade III with 6 medals. On 24 February 2010, the Minister of Internal Affairs, General Victor Catan, Gen. Ion Costaş was decorated with "The Cross of Merit", the highest distinction of the MIA with occasion of celebrating of his birthday.

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Popular Front of Moldova

Topics	Deșteptarea Țara 1990 election Grand National Assembly, Chișinău 1989 Bridge of Flowers Stephen the Great Monument Capitoline Wolf, Chișinău Ion Hadârcă Nicolae Costin Gheorghe Ghimpu

Druc Cabinet	Mircea Druc Valeriu Muravschi Nicolae Țîu Alexandru Ion Barbu Andrei Sangheli Nicolae Mătcaș Ion Ungureanu Gheorghe Ghidirim Alexei Barbăneagră Tudor Botnaru Ion Costaș

Moldovan Parliament 1990–1994

Topics	1990 election Popular Front of Moldova Declaration of Independence of Moldova

MPs	Andrei Baştovoi Anatol Şalaru Victor Pavlic Ilie Mocanu Vasile Gudima Andrei Ţurcanu Mihai Poiată Nicolae Robu Vasile Nedelciuc Alexandru Moşanu Ion Popa Constantin Culea Gheorghe Cârlan Mihai Sâromeatnicov Valeriu Cibotaru Valentin Mândâcanu Titu Serghei Pavel Lupăcescu Mihai Bejan Dumitru Guţu Jorj Crisico Mihai Străjescu Vitalie Ustroi Dumitru Cereş Anatol Ivanov Petru Soltan Alexandru Gorodnicenco Iurie Maxuta Vladimir Dobrea Nicolae Grosu Nicolae Alexei Ion Eremia Dumitru Braşoveanu Elisei Secrieru Vlad Pascaru Teodor Macrinici Vasile Pruteanu Dumitru Cernei Nicolae Domente Gheorghe Bogdanov Iurie Timoşenco Vasile Basoc Ion Borşevici Anton Spânu Tudor Lefter Andrei Munteanu Gheorghe Siumbeli Gheorghe Nechit Dumitru Holban Grigore Cuşnir Gheorghe Răducan Fiodor Nirean Sergiu Fandofan Ion Tacu Mihai Scutaru Mihai Ciorici Ilarion Guidea Ion Scutaru Mihai Lazăr Nicolae Misail Ion Tanas Vasile Para Valeriu Jardan Alexandru Ohotnicov Valentin Colun Semion Guranda Sergiu Argatu 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Ion Costaș

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