Vladimir Yastrebchak
Vladimir Valerevich Yastrebchak was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Transnistria. He replaced the longtime minister Valeriy Anatolievich Litskai on July 1, 2008. He was replaced in January 2012 by Nina Shtanski.
Yastrebchak was born in Tiraspol, and graduated from the law school of the T. G. Shevchenko University in 2001, after which he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He became the First Deputy Minister there on February 14, 2007.
He speaks a number of languages fluently including English and French.
Yastrebchak is of Ukrainian descent and is married.
