Supported by the PSRM, Uzun was defeated by Evghenia Guțul during the 2023 Gagauz gubernatorial election for the position of Governor (başkan) of Gagauzia.
Grigorii Vladimirovici Uzun[1] was born on 14 November 1986[2] in Vulcănești (Gagauz: Valkaneş), in the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union (now in Gagauzia, Moldova).
After graduating from his university, Uzun returned to the town in Russia where his parents were living and developed together with them a transportation business[3] named after himself.
A fight he participated in with several other people in Vulcănești on 19 January 2019, on the day of Epiphany, resulted in several local councillors of the town calling for his resignation from his post as member of the assembly.
[4] Officially supported by the PSRM, Uzun ran as an independent candidate for the 2023 Gagauz gubernatorial election for the position of Governor (başkan) of Gagauzia.