Aleksandr Radchenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Рáдченко; 1943 – 13 November 2014) was an ethnic Ukrainian[1] politician and human rights activist from Transnistria. A former Soviet military officer, he was the editor of a small opposition newspaper in Tiraspol called Chelovek i ego prava (Man and His Rights).[2][3] Most of his articles deal with human rights issues.

In 1994 Radchenko founded the now-defunct political party Power to the People (Vlast narodu). During the February 2001 elections to the Republic of Moldova Parliament his party advocated participation of Transnistrians at those elections and campaigned for the Moldova Communist Party. He was accused by the Transnistrian Minister of Justice of crimes against the state as he was advocating the restoration of Moldova's territorial integrity and, therefore, the liquidation of the separate Transnistrian state. His party was twice banned for short periods.

Alexander Radchenko participated in the 9 December 2001 Transnistrian presidential election, running against the incumbent Igor Smirnov and Tom Zenovich. Of the three candidates, he came last with just under five percent of the votes.[4]

Between 2000 and 2005 he was a member of parliament but he failed to win re-election on 11 December 2005.

In January 2007 Radchenko founded the Social Democratic Party of Transnistria,[2] the only political party in Transnistria which is in favor of conditional reintegration into Moldova.

He died on 13 November 2014.[1][5]

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  1. 1 2 "Скончался Александр Радченко » Dnestr.TV - Первое Приднестровское Интернет-Телевидение". dnestr.tv.
  2. 1 2 "Valery Ponomarenko elected to Parliament of PMR". vspmr.org. Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. 11 June 2007. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  3. ↑ Fawkes, Helen (2 September 2005). "Trans-Dniester's surreal life". BBC Online. Archived from the original on 30 December 2010.
  4. ↑ ПРЕЗИДЕНТСКИЕ ВЫБОРЫ В ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ: ОСНОВНЫЕ ИТОГИ ИЗБИРАТЕЛЬНЫХ КАМПАНИЙ. ОЛЬВИЯ-ПРЕСС (in Russian). Archived from the original on 13 July 2011.
  5. ↑ "В Приднестровье умер политик и правозащитник Александр Радченко - Один из основателей газеты "Человек и его права" был тяжело болен – NewsMaker". 13 November 2014.


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