The president of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoyty, resigned on December 10, 2011. Prime Minister Vadim Brovtsev will be acting president from December 11 until the new presidential election scheduled for March 25, 2012. Eduard Kokoyty, President of South Ossetia (Кокойты Эдуард Джабеевич) born on October 31, 1964 in Tskhinvali. Professional career started as an electrical engineer. Graduated South Ossetian Pedagogical More →
Mario Monti, Prime Minister of Italy (since Nov 16, 2011) Mario Monti (born 19 March 1943) is an Italian economist and academic who is Prime Minister of Italy, as well as Minister of Economy and Finance, since November 2011. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from More →
Lucas Papademos, Prime Minister of Greece (since Nov 10, 2011) Lucas Demetrios Papademos (born 11 October 1947) is a Greek economist and the interim Prime Minister of Greece. He was appointed Prime Minister in November 2011 after the head of the governing party, George Papandreou, decided to step down, and allow a provisional coalition government to form with the task More →
Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland (takes office on Nov 11, 2011) Campaigner, poet, politician – Michael D Higgins is widely regarded as a principled, eloquent and passionate public figure and statesman. Michael D was born into humble circumstances in Limerick, and raised in Clare by a family who paid a huge price during the tumultuous events of the foundation More →
Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bulgaria (elected on Oct 23, 2011. takes office on Jan 22, 2012) Born in Gotse Delchev, Rosen Plevneliev studied at Blagoevgrad Mathematical and Natural Sciencies High School, from which he graduated in 1982. In 1989 he graduated from the Higher Mechanical-Electrotechnical Institute, Sofia, and in the same year become a fellow at the Institute for Microprocessing More →
Aleksandr Ankvab, President of Abkhazia Alyksandr Zolotinska-ipa Ankvab (born December 26, 1952) is the President of Abkhazia, a prominent member of the political party Aitaira and a businessman. Ankvab had been Prime Minister, a post to which he was appointed by then newly elected President Sergei Bagapsh on 14 February 2005. In the 4 October 2004 Presidential election, Ankvab had supported More →
Slavo Kukic, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (since June 14, 2011) Slavo Kukić (born 1954 near Posušje, Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian sociologist and politician. He teaches as a professor at the Faculty of Economics at the Mostar University and has additional teaching tasks at the universities of Sarajevo and Split. In June 2011, the independent ethnic Croat was nominated for More →
Andris Berzins, President of Latvia (since June 8, 2011) Andris Bērziņš was born in 1944 in Nītaure, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union. In 1958 he completed studies at a Nītaure primary school, and attended the 1st middle school of Sigulda from 1958 to 1962. He then began studying at the Riga Polytechnical Institute, which he graduated in 1971, and became a More →
Atifete Jahjaga, President of Kosovo (since Apr 7, 2011) Atifete Jahjaga, born 20 April 1975, is the 4th and current President of Kosovo. She is the first female, the first non-partisan candidate, and the youngest to be elected to the office. She previously served as the Deputy Director of the Kosovo Police, holding the rank of Major General, the highest More →
Micheline Calmy-Rey, President of the Swiss Confederation (since Dec 10, 2010) Micheline Calmy-Rey was born in Sion in Canton Valais on 8 July 1945 . She is married with two children and has a degree in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. For 20 years she ran a book distribution business. In 1979, she joined More →
Bronisław Komorowski, President of the Republic of Poland (since July 4, 2010) After President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, was killed in a plane crush on April 10, 2010, the marshal of the Sejm (Polish Parliament), Bronislaw Komorowski, became Acting President. Bronislaw Komorowski was born on June 4, 1952 in Oborniki Slaskie, near Wroclaw, a family with strong traditions of independence More →
Pál Schmitt, President of Hungary (since June 29, 2010) Pál Schmitt (born 13 May 1942 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician, former Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 14 May 2010. He was elected as President of Hungary in a 263 to 59 vote in the Parliament of Hungary on June 29, 2010 and takes office on August More →
Mari Kiviniemi, Prime Minister of Finland (since June 22, 2010) Mari Johanna Kiviniemi (born September 27, 1968 in Seinäjoki, Finland) is a Finnish politician and the Prime Minister of Finland. She was elected as the Prime Minister in 22nd of June 2010. Kiviniemi has previously been the Minister of Public Administration and Local Government in the Council of State of More →
David Cameron, Prime Minister of the UK (since May 11, 2010) Born: 9 October 1966 David was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in December 2005 and sworn in as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on May 11, 2010. Since then he has set out plans to rebuild UK’s battered economy, revive beleaguered NHS and repair British broken More →
Dervis Eroglu, President of Northern Cyprus (since April 23, 2010) Dr. Derviş Eroğlu (born 1938) is a political figure and President of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). He was Prime Minister of the entity from 1985 to 1994 and from 1996 to 2004, and leader of the National Unity Party. His party won the general elections in 2009 and More →