Aurica Bojescu

Aurica Bojescu (born 6 January 1961; ) is a Ukrainian lawyer, minority rights activist and politician of Romanian ethnicity. She is a representative of the Romanian community in Ukraine, being an advocate for minority rights for the ethnic minorities of the country. Bojescu also contributed to the drafting of the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine, was a member of the Chernivtsi Oblast Council during four legislatures and worked as an assistant for Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) members for over a decade. She is a recipient of the badge from Ukraine's education ministry as well as Romania's .

Biography Aurica Bojescu was born on 6 January 1961 in the village of Karapchiv ( or ), in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). living in the town of Hlyboka as of 2026. Having completed a Master of Public Administration, Having been elected for four different legislatures, From 2006 to 2019, she worked as an assistant consultant for members of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) from Chernivtsi Oblast's constituencies,

Bojescu is a specialist in the field of education, in particular from the perspective of the national minorities in Ukraine. Having more than 25 years of teaching experience as of 2026, she is a recipient of the badge awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Bojescu has often acted as a representative for the Romanian minority in the region of Northern Bukovina, having represented the Romanian community in Ukraine in negotiations with the Ukrainian education ministry. She has actively protested against the deficient situation regarding the minority rights of the Ukrainian Romanians (including the Ukrainian self-declared Moldovans), particularly in Romanian media. In 2003, Bojescu was elected executive president of the Bukovinian Independent Center for Current Studies.

Bojescu was awarded the in the rank of "Knight", in the F Category ("The promotion of culture"), on 6 March 2025 by the President of Romania. She received the award in appreciation of her "important contributions made to the promotion of Romanian language and literature [...] for the preservation of Romanian traditions and civilization and the promotion of Romania's image in Ukraine". Victor Micula, Romania's ambassador to Ukraine, stated that the award was a culmination of her activities carried out over decades. Bojescu and two other Ukrainian Romanian figures (writer and journalist Maria Andrieș and journalist Nicolae Șapcă, for the same reasons) received the award in a ceremony at the .