Background
Kaminski was born in 1950 in eastern Russia, but his family was of Ukrainian descent.
Kaminski was born in 1950 in eastern Russia, but his family was of Ukrainian descent.
Kaminski studied in Odesa, Ukraine, at the Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Odessa Institute of Technology.
Kaminski was subsequently elected as vice-speaker, with Yevgeny Shevchuk, also of the Renewal party, becoming speaker. On July 22, 2009, Shevchuk resigned as speaker and Kaminski was elected unopposed to replace him. The newly elected vice-speaker is Mikhail Burla, chairman of Renewal.
In the first round of elections for president of the PMR held in December 2011, Kaminskii received 26.48% of the vote, narrowly making it into the second round of voting.
Yevgeny Shevchuk, the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet, received the most support with 38.53%, while sitting president, Igor Smirnov, came in third with 24.82%.
President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity awarded Kaminski the "Order of Friendship" on 12 March 2010, "for a great personal contribution to the development of friendship between the peoples of South Ossetia and Transnistria, merits in strengthening inter-parliamentary cooperation and for his 60-year birthday".
Kaminski"s first political office was as a member of the council of the city of Rybnitsa from 1990 until 2000, when he was elected to parliament. In 2005, he was re-elected in an election that proved to be a victory for his party. In the election, United Russia, the ruling political party of Russia, supported Kaminskii"s campaign.