Vadim Krasnoselsky

He considers the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 as a "catastrophe" and refers to the Bolsheviks as "traitors" and "usurpers."

He also was one of the main supporters for the establishment of the first museum in Transnistria dedicated to the victims of political repression, and he has stated he views the policy of decossackization as "genocide based on class criteria."

He adheres to the opinion that in Transnistria, the Holodomor was organized by the communists in power at the time in the region, and supported and instructed to explore the installation of a monument in Bender dedicated to the victims of Soviet repression.

He also spoke positively about one of the leaders of the White Movement, Mikhail Drozdovsky, the Monarchist general who led the Iași–Don March.

Krasnoselsky has proposed raising statues of notable Imperial Russian leaders such as Emperor Alexander III, Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov and Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin.

Vadim Nikolayevich Krasnoselsky (Вади́м Никола́евич Красносе́льский; Vadim Nicolaevici Crasnoselschii; born 14 April 1970) is a Transnistrian politician who is the 3rd and current President of Transnistria.

On April 14, 1970, Vadim Krasnoselsky was born to parents Nikolai Vasilyevich Krasnoselsky (1939-2016) and Antonina Grigorievna Krasnoselskaya (born 1945) in the village of Dauriya, in the Borzinsky district (now the Zabaykalsky District) of the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union.

This area is located in the Russian Far East.

Krasnoselsky came from a military family.

In August, he attended a ceremony at the base of the Operational Group of Russian Forces with Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu dedicated the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Moldova in the Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive.

In late October, he met with President Dodon at his presidential residence in Holercani ahead of the Bavaria Conference, scheduled for 4–5 November.

During his presidency, he revived the traditional New Year balls, in which he takes part with his spouse.

In 1978 his father was transferred to a military base in Bender in the Moldavian SSR.

He attended High School No. 102 (now Gymnasium No. 1) in Bender, and is said to have sat at the same desk of his future wife Svetlana.

As a child, Krasnoselsky is reported to have attended a music school, and took part in rowing and other sporting competitions, fulfilling the standards for the title of “Candidate for Master of Sports of the USSR”.

After leaving school in 1987 Krasnoselsky started studying in Odesa, but left during his first year to join a Military Aviation Engineer Higher School in Kharkiv, from which he graduated in 1993.

However, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to an independent Ukraine.

He subsequently joined the Transnistrian security forces, later becoming a high-ranking official in the Ministry of the Interior.

From 1998 to 2000, Krasnoselsky was the Deputy Head of the anti-corruption department of the Bendery police force, and from 2000 to 2003, he was Deputy Head of the anti-corruption department in the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PMR.

Vadim Krasnoselsky took his degree in law at the Transnistrian State University, graduating from the Faculty of Law in 2002.

He worked for the Bender police for several years, rising through the ranks before becoming the chief of police in that city.

From September 10, 2003, he was the head of the Bendery GOVD (later the Bendery Department of Internal Affairs).

In 2007, Krasnoselsky became Minister of the Interior, serving until 2012 when he started working in business, as an adviser to the Board of Directors of SZAO Interdnestrcom, where he worked for 3 years until 2015.

Previously, he served as a member of the Supreme Council of Transnistria from the 7th district, as 6th Speaker of the Supreme Council (2015–2016) and the 7th Minister of the Interior.

He was elected to the Supreme Council in the 2015 elections, and was appointed as the body's Speaker.

Supported by the Sheriff conglomerate, he defeated incumbent President Yevgeny Shevchuk in the 2016 presidential elections, receiving 62% of the vote.

He was inaugurated on 27 December at the Nadezhda Aronetskaya State Drama Theatre.

On 4 January 2017, he received newly elected Moldovan President Igor Dodon in Bender, who was the second Moldovan leader to visit the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) in several years.

In September 2017, he ordered the creation of the Tiraspol Suvorov Military School, the youth cadet school of the Armed Forces of Transnistria.

He has expressed his support for Transnistria being a part of Russia on numerous occasions.

Krasnoselsky pursued a policy of greening and beautification of cities, primarily through the creation of new parks, squares, and the reconstruction of existing ones.

During these improvements, he also undertook the renaming of parks and areas that were previously named during the communist era, restoring them to their original pre-revolutionary names or assigning new ones inspired by Russia's imperial past or figures from that era in 2021 and 2020.

Since 2017, a series of transformations have been implemented in the Armed Forces of Transnistria.

Firstly, military service has shifted to a "workday" regime.

Soldiers report for duty in the morning and leave in the evening, thereby reducing instances of hazing and unauthorized departure from military units to isolated cases.

Secondly, during their army service, students from higher education institutions switch to distance learning, ensuring the continuity of the educational process.

Conscripts are granted leave during exam sessions.

Thirdly, there has been a technical upgrade of military units, ranging from new uniforms to the repair of existing facilities and the construction of new barracks.

In January 2019, he attended the opening of the PMR representative offices in Moscow, replacing the Cooperation Center "Transnistria".

On 29 May, he announced the creation of an international lawsuit against Moldova in which the PMR asks for compensation for "the aggression against the people of Transnistria".