What is Mircea Snegur?
{{Infobox President | honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] | name = Mircea Snegur | image = Mircea Snegur, March 2012-2.jpg | office1 = 1st [[President of Moldova]] | termend1 = 15 January 1997 | termstart1 = 3 September 1990 | predecessor1 = ''Position Established'' | successor1 = [[Petru Lucinschi]] | office2 = Chairman of the [[Parliament of Moldova|Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR]] | termstart2 = 27 April 1990 | termend2 = 3 September 1990 | successor2 = [[Alexandru Moșanu]] (as [[President of the Moldovan Parliament]]) | predecessor2 = [[Ion C. Ciobanu]] | primeminister2 = [[Mircea Druc]] | office3 = Member of the [[Moldovan Parliament]] | primeminister3 = [[Mircea Druc]]<br/>[[Valeriu Muravschi]]<br/>[[Andrei Sangheli]] | term_start3 = 22 March 1998 | term_end3 = 25 February 2001 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|1|17|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Trifăneşti]], [[Romania]]<br><small>(now [[Moldova]])</small> | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|9|13|1940|1|17|df=y}} | death_place = [[Chișinău]], [[Moldova]] | spouse = {{marriage|[[Georgeta Snegur]]|1960|2019|end = died}} | party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] | children = 2, including [[Natalia Gherman]] | signature = Signature of Mircea Snegur.png | primeminister1 = [[Mircea Druc]]<br/>[[Valeriu Muravschi]]<br/>[[Andrei Sangheli]] }} '''Mircea Ion Snegur''' ({{IPA-ro|ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a iˈon ˈsneɡur}}; 17 January 1940 – 13 September 2023)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OYbsAAAAMAAJ&q=Mircea+Snegur+b.+17+Jan.+1940 Profile of Mircea Snegur]</ref> is a Moldovan politician. He was the [[President of Moldova#Republic of Moldova (1991–present)|first President of Moldova]] from 1990 to 1997. Before that, he was [[President of Moldova|Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]] from 1989 to 1990 and [[President of Moldova|Chairman of the Supreme Soviet]] from 27 April to 3 September 1990. Snegur died of [[cancer]] on 13 September 2023 in [[Chișinău]], [[Moldova]] at the age of 83.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 September 2023 |title=A murit primu