Surprise in Transnistria

[Filuwaúrdjan]

They had their Presidential elections recently. First round results appear to be...

Yevgeny Shevchuk - 38.5
Anatoliy Kaminsky - 26.5
Igor Smirnov - 24.8
Oleg Khorzhan - 5.1
Against All - 1.9
Others 1.1

Smirnov was the incumbent and had been President (insert your own inverted commas if thou wish) since 1990. Notably he'd fallen out of favour with the Russian government, who not so subtly backed Kaminsky, the candidate of the opposition Renewal party, of which Shevchuk is also a former (?) member.

Second round results appear to be...

Yevgeny Shevchuk - 73.8
Anatoly Kaminsky - 19.7
Against All - 4.4
Spoilt - 2.0

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What do we know about Shevchuk?

Only what his wiki and parliamentary biographies say. I'll link to the former and post most of the latter:

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