CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldova’s first president, Mircea Snegur, has died at the age of 83, former Moldovan vice-premier Constantin Tampiza said on Thursday.
“On September 13, at 23:30 the (former) President of the Republic of Moldova Mircea Snegur gave up in the fight against an incurable disease,” Tampiza wrote on Facebook.
Snegur, a former communist, was president from 1990 to 1997, overseeing Moldova’s breakaway from the Soviet Union and transition to independence.
(Reporting by Max Hunder, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
