Elena Vasilievna Bomeshko[a] (born (1950-02-10)10 February 1950) is a Transnistrian politician, who served as minister of education from 25 July 2000 to 16 January 2007.
Elena Vasilievna Bomeshko was born on (1950-02-10)10 February 1950 in the village of Vatic [ru], part of the Orhei District in the-then Moldavian SSR.
From 1966–71, Bomeshko studied at the Chisinau State University (now the Moldova State University), where she graduated with honors in the field of physical chemistry, gaining a qualification as a teacher of chemistry.
As minister of education, Elena Bomeshko supported a policy discriminating against school-children using the Romanian alphabet and supported the promotion of a separate Moldavian language written in the Cyrillic script.
[2] In January 2009, as advisor to the president, she pleaded in favor of state commissioning in education.