# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viorel-cibotaru
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:41:51.570Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viorel-cibotaru"
name: "Viorel Cibotaru"
slug: "viorel-cibotaru"
description: "Viorel Cibotaru is a Moldovan politician, former political analyst and journalist, who currently serves as the Moldovan Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg. He was the Minister of Defense of Moldova between 18 February 2015 and 30 July 2015.\nCibotaru has authored four books."
tagline: "Moldovan politician, former political analyst and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Viorel_Cibotaru_in_2015_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1958-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.92
  momentum:             15.14925373134328
  historical:           6.135781333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ویوریل چیبوٹارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڤيوريل سيبوتارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Viorel Cibotaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viorel_Cibotaru"
    title: "Viorel Cibotaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viorel_Cibotaru"
    title: "Viorel Cibotaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Чиботару, Виорел Семёнович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viorel_Cibotaru"
    title: "Viorel Cibotaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20430982"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump