Boris Volosatîi

Boris Volosatîi (also Volosatâi; born 16 June 1956) is a Moldovan professor and member of the Parliament of Romania. A history professor, Volosatîi was the director of the for over three decades and an advocate for the unification of Moldova and Romania. Volosatîi became a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) for the constituency of the Romanian diaspora in 2020, being the only Moldovan in the 2020–2024 legislature of the Romanian Parliament. He is since 2022 the president of the Moldovan branch of AUR.

Biography Boris Volosatîi was born on 16 June 1956 in Purcari, in the Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova). He is a history professor with the degree of Doctor of Science. He was the director of the in Chișinău from 5 January 1990 He is the president of the Committee for the Salvation of the Heroes' Cemetery Memorial Complex, which strives for the preservation of the , a World War II cemetery of Romanian soldiers. The committee, together with the Public Association Union – ODIP and Moldovan veterans of the Transnistria War, celebrated the Romanian Armed Forces Day on 25 October 2018 at the cemetery. Volosatîi was also the president of the Congress of Teachers , a Romanian patriotic association of Moldovan teachers and students founded on 21 February 2017. On 1 December 2018, on the occasion of the Great Union Day (the national day of Romania) and the centenary of the Great Union, teachers and students of the Gheorghe Asachi Romanian-French High School, still led by Volosatîi at the time, displayed a banner on a floor of the high school with a map of a united Moldova and Romania and the phrase "History obliges us". Volosatîi later received the award "Ambassador of the Union" by then Action 2012 leader George Simion. On 10 September 2022, during an extraordinary congress, Volosatîi was elected president of the Moldovan branch of AUR. He succeeded Vlad Bilețchi, who had been his parliamentary councillor until June 2022.