[7] Voronin graduated from the Cooperation Tekhnikum (Kooperativny tekhnikum) of Chișinău (1961), the All-Union Institute for Food Industry (1971), the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1983), and the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (1991).

[9] Voronin maintained his commitment to the reduction of Moldova's chronic poverty by allocating more resources to social safety net items such as health, education, and increasing pensions and salaries.

These measures helped to maintain support for his government, but Moldova still remained the poorest country in Europe throughout his presidency, with around 38% of GDP coming from remittances of Moldovans working abroad (2008).

Voronin's tenure as President was marked by fluctuating relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

In 2003, Voronin's government backtracked over signing a Russian-proposed federalization settlement with the breakaway region of Transnistria (Kozak memorandum).

The police crackdown of the civil unrest in April 2009 antagonized the society, and the communists were unable to secure one additional vote out of the 41 MPs from the three opposition parties; a snap parliamentary election was necessary.

[32] His remarks towards the African-born activist John Onoje[33] ("They [the ruling parties] brought here a Negro, who'd just climbed down from a tree, and now he's doing politics for them.")

[34][35][36][37] Despite the fact that his grandfather Isidor Sârbu emigrated to Romania, Voronin considers Moldovans and Romanians two different ethnic groups.

[38][39][40][41][42] In 2001, Moldovan Communist Vladimir Voronin had a clearly pro-Russian stance, opposing “pro-European” forces and pro-Romanian Unionists.

From 1999 to 2006, firms controlled by the Voronin family received free or for nothing 4 hectares of land in the most expensive zone of the city - opposite the Valea Morilor [ro] park.

Despite numerous accusations from both political parties and a number of media outlets, law enforcement agencies said they had found no confirmation of such information.

The investigation was preceded by the appearance in the media of printouts of transactions from a bank card allegedly belonging to Vladimir Voronin's son.

According to this data, the owner of the card in 2008-2009 spent about five million dollars on shopping in expensive stores and staying in luxury hotels.

His income is estimated at about 700 million USD, there are data on his real estate in California (USA), Greece and Baden-Baden (Germany), also on a private sanatorium in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), a collection of new cars, ownership of valuable plots of land in Moldova.

It is known that in 2007-2008 the Ministry of Finance transferred an average of 5 million lei to the accounts of the airline “Nobil Air”, which transported Voronin and which is linked to the Moldovan oligarch Plahotniuc.

Timpul journalists write about an entire garage of luxury and retro cars in the basement of the new PCRM office on the capital's Armenească Street.

The National Bank of Moldova caught Oleg Voronin's group shareholders in collusion and obliged them to sell their shares.

The largest shareholder was Oleg, who together with his family members, including the wife of ex-president Vladimir Voronin, owned 23.54% of shares.

[54] On February 18, 2012, Vladimir Voronin publicly insulted a Moldovan political activist of Sudanese origin, John Onoje, pointing to his skin color.

Amnesty International called on the prosecutor's office and Moldovan MPs to investigate the incident and punish Voronin.

[55] In 2021, the leader of the Party of Communists, Vladimir Voronin, was reported to the Council for the Prevention and Elimination of Discrimination and Equality.

Vlad Bilețchi, leader of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (Alianța pentru Unirea Românilor - AUR) party, demanded that Voronin's words that “with the arrival of NATO” ‘brown children’ will be born in Moldova” be recognized as xenophobic and racist.

[56] Vladimir Voronin is married to Taisia Mihailovna Voronina (a Ukrainian) and has two children, a son Oleg and a daughter Valentina.

On 19 February 2010, Voronin told journalists that the questioning of his son is an attempt of revenge against his family by the current authorities.