Career
On 13 June 2012 Mikhail Burla was elected Speaker of Supreme Council to replace Anatoliy Kaminski who resigned following his failure during the Presidential elections of 2011. Burla was born on 22 November 1957 in Storozhynets Raion of the Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine. He is an economic geographer by profession and has spent much of his career teaching at T.G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol.