The first president of independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, has died at the age of 87. In 1991, on the Belarusian side, he signed the Bialowieza Agreement, which ended the existence of the USSR. His wife Irina told Euroradio about it,
KYIV. UkraineGate , 4 , May , 2022 | War News .
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“On the night of May 4, Stanislav Shushkevich, the first leader of the independent republic of Belarus, died in Minsk,” the statement said.
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It was noted that in April this year Shushkevich’s health deteriorated after the coronavirus. He was in intensive care for some time.
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Stanislav Shushkevych is the son of a repressed Belarusian writer. Well-known Belarusian scientist. He was a People’s Deputy of the USSR (since 1989), a People’s Deputy of the BSSR (since 1990) and was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Republic of Belarus. After the August 1991 coup, he headed the Belarusian parliament.
Stanislav Shushkevych was one of the participants in the Bialowieza Accords, which buried the USSR in December 1991. He was removed from the post of Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada in early 1994. He ran in the 1994 presidential election, but did not make it to the second round. In 1995 he was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Belarus, was a member of the faction “Civil Action”.
In the fall of 1996, he signed an application to the Constitutional Court to impeach Alexander Lukashenko. He refused to enter the House of Representatives, then participated in the activities of the Verkhovna Rada, whose powers expired in 2001.
For a long time he headed the Belarusian Social Democratic community (since 2018 – honorary chairman). He boldly criticized Lukashenko’s policies.
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The new textbook on the history of Belarus for 11th grade never mentions the only Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svitlana Oleksiyovych and the signatory of the Belovezhskaya Pact Stanislav Shushkevych.
Source: Ukrgate
