Tatiana Turanskaya

Tatiana Mikhailovna Turanskaya (, ; born November 20, 1972) is a Transnistrian politician who served as Prime Minister of Transnistria from 2013 to 2015. Prior to her tenure as prime minister she was active in the local affairs of Rîbnița, where she rose to become head of the local government. In 2019, she and seven other women associated with President Yevgeny Shevchuk were sentenced to eight years in prison.

Early life and education Turanskaya Tatyana Mikhailovna was born in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, on 20 November 1972. She is a Ukrainian. She graduated from the Odesa National Economics University in 1995.

Career Turanskaya was a tax inspector in Rîbnița from 1999 to 2012. She was appointed as deputy head of economic issues in the local administration in Rîbnița in 2012, then as first deputy head two weeks later, acting head on 29 June, and then as head on 30 August. President Yevgeny Shevchuk appointed Turanskaya as deputy prime minister for regional development on 19 June 2013.

Prime Minister Pyotr Stepanov resigned in 2013, and Turanskaya was appointed as acting prime minister on 20 June. Shevchuk appointed her as prime minister on 10 July. Maya Parnas was selected to succeed her as prime minister on 13 October 2015.

In 2019, Turanskaya and seven other women associated with Shevchuk's government were sentenced to eight years in prison for withholding 30% of the pensions and salaries of state employees in 2015.