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Transnistrian politician (born 1956)

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Akimovich and the family name is Karaman.

Aleksandr Karaman
Александр Караман
Karaman in 2015

Vice President of Transnistria
In office 1990–2001
Preceded by	Post established
Foreign Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic
In office August 15, 2014 – August 28, 2014
Preceded by	Ekaterina Gubareva

Personal details
Born	(1956-07-26) July 26, 1956 (age 68) Cioburciu, Moldavian SSR, USSR

Aleksandr Akimovich Karaman (Russian: Алекса́ндр Аки́мович Карама́н, Romanian: Alexandru Caraman; born 26 July 1956) is a Transnistrian politician and later the Foreign Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) during August 2014. He was the Vice President of Transnistria from 1990 to 2001 and is an ethnic Moldovan. He is on the wanted list in the DPR for kidnapping, but currently lives in Russia.

He was a communist party leader in Slobozia district, and a delegate at the 17th Congress of Moldovan Communist Party. He was against the acceptance by the Moldovan Communist Party of press freedom and criticised the tolerance that Communist party showed towards anticommunist publications. Caraman was instrumental in declaration of independence of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic on September 2, 1990, and held the vice-presidency until the 2001 elections.

From July 21 to November 12, 2014, he was the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers for Social Affairs in the Donetsk People's Republic. From August 15 to August 28, 2014, he was the Foreign Minister for the Donetsk People's Republic. During the summer of 2016, he was charged with kidnapping by the DPR prosecutor and he subsequently fled to Russia.

Sanctions

Because of his involvement in undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine, he is under sanctions since 2014 in the United States, the European Union, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland.

References

Interview with Alexander Caraman in "Moldova" nr. 12/1990 (Romanian)
^ Лисунов (Lisunov), Дмитрий (Dmitri) (December 29, 2016). "Опальный создатель банановых республик: Пора бы уже какую-то премию символическую учредить за самые бесславные уходы "строителей" кремлёвского "русского мира". Знакомьтесь, Александр Акимович Караман" [Disgraced creator of banana republics: It's time to create some kind of symbolic premium for the most inglorious withdrawal of the "builders" of the Kremlin "Russian world". Meet Alexander Karaman] (in Russian). Петр и Мазепа. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
"Side-by-Side List of Sanctioned Russian and Ukrainian/Crimean Entities and Individuals" (PDF). Bryan Cave. December 22, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
Taylor-Vaisey, Nick (April 18, 2017). "These are the Russians under sanctions by the West". Maclean's. Retrieved May 21, 2018.

Political offices
Preceded byPosition established	Vice President of Transnistria 1990–2001	Succeeded bySergey Leontiev

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