Early life

Grecu was born in Dubăsari

Dubasari

Dubăsari is a city in Transnistria, with a population of 23,650. The city is under the administration of the breakaway government of the "Transnistrian Moldovan Republic", and functions as the seat of the Dubăsari sub-district, Transnistria, Moldova.-Name:The origin of the town name is the plural...

, Transnistria

Transnistria

Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...

. He graduated from the Schools of Plastic Arts of Dubăsari (1976) and the Technical University - Civil and Industrial Constructions Faculty (1987).

Life

During the 1992 War of Transnistria

War of Transnistria

The War of Transnistria was a limited conflict that broke out in November 1990 at Dubăsari between pro-Transnistria forces, including the Transnistrian Republican Guard, militia and Cossack units, and supported by elements of the Russian 14th army, and pro-Moldovan forces, including Moldovan...

, Grecu volunteered for the Moldovan forces fighting against the separatist regime of Transnistria

Transnistria

Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...

. After the war he became a refugee

Refugee

A refugee is a person who outside her country of origin or habitual residence because she has suffered persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or because she is a member of a persecuted 'social group'. Such a person may be referred to as an 'asylum seeker' until...

. As of 2006, he is living in Chişinău

Chisinau

Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...

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Books

• O viziune din focarul conflictului de la Dubăsari (A view from the centre of the Dubăsari conflict) (2005). A memoir of the political conflict in Transnistria
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• Morcovel (2002), a children's book.