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Zurab Todua
Todua in 2015
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office
24 December 2010 – 9 December 2014
Parliamentary groupParty of Communists
Personal details
Born (1963-12-25) 25 December 1963 (age 60)
Șoldănești, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyCollective Action Party – Civic Congress
Other political
affiliations		Party of Communists
ParentDjumberi Todua (father)
Alma materState University of Moldova
OccupationHistorian, politician, politologue, publicist, writer

Zurab Todua (Russian: Зураб Джумберович Тодуа; born 25 December 1963) is a Moldovan historian, politician, politologue, publicist and writer, who served as deputy in the Parliament of Moldova between 2010 and 2014.

Since 1991 Todua has researched political, social-economical, inter-ethnic and religious problems in post-soviet space (CIS), being specialised on the conflict regions and zones, and on religious extremism. Todua is well known in Russian-language area, and often is presented as a 'Russian' politologue.

Todua was born in Șoldănești, then part of the Moldavian SSR within the Soviet Union, to a Georgian father and a Moldovan mother. His father, Djumberi Todua, as well is a communist politician who served as deputy in Moldovan Parliament in 2001–2005.

In 1990s, Todua worked as special correspondent, then observer for Russian newspapers "Панорама" (Panorama), "Россия" (Rossiya), and "Новая газета" (Novaya gazeta).

He wrote the following books: «Новая Чечено-Ингушетия» (1992), «Азербайджан сегодня» (1995), «Поединок на азиатском ковре» (1999), «Узбекистан между прошлым и будущим» (2000), «Азербайджанский пасьянс» (2001), «Экспансия исламистов на Кавказе и в Центральной Азии» (2006), «Молдавия и молдавские коммунисты. Политическая хроника переломной эпохи 1988 – 2008» (2009), «Провал «Альянса за Евро» (2010).

In February 2017, journalist Oleg Brega spotted Todua in Bucharest at the Romanian anti-corruption protests.

In 2019 he joined the Collective Action Party – Civic Congress, founded by Mark Tkaciuk and Iurie Muntean. He is a member of the executive committee of the party.

References

  1. (in Russian)Тодуа Зураб Джумберович - писатель, историк, депутат Парламента Молдовы от партии коммунистов, родился 25 декабря 1963 года
  2. (in Russian)Москва разгневана арестами в Грузии
  3. (in Russian)Российский политолог Зураб Тодуа: «Досрочные выборы убьют Молдову»
  4. Zurab Todua: the Uzbek direction tested
  5. (in Russian)З. Тодуа. Провал "Альянса за Евро": Дневник политического кризиса в Республике Молдова. Сборник статей. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, ПАВЕЛ ИВАНОВ
  6. (in Russian)(ИНТЕРВЬЮ) Зураб Тодуа: «Вполне вероятно мы стоим на пороге очень серьезных и грозных событий» - TRIBUNA.MD Archived January 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  7. (in Russian)АНОНС: Публичные лекции Зураба Тодуа на тему «Десятилетие конфликтов. Кавказ и Центральная Азия в 90-е годы» (ВИДЕО)
  8. (in Russian)О молдавских государственниках и унионистах на рубеже XX-XXI веков Archived 2016-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Unknown
  10. "Partidul Acțiunii Comune Congresul Civic: un „ghimpe" pentru socialiști?" [Joint Action Party Civic Congress: a "thorn" for socialists?] (in Romanian).

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