The first leader of the independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, died

The first leader of the independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, died. This was reported by the Belarusian Radio Liberty Service. At the end of April, an 87-year-old politician was hospitalized in intensive care after a coronavirus infection.

Shushkevich - by a degree in a scientist -physicist - in 1991 he was elected chairman of the Supreme Council of the Belarusian SSR (on the day of his election, it was renamed the Republic of Belarus).

In the absence of the President’s post in Belarus, this position was the highest in the republic. In December 1991, it was he who, on behalf of Belarus, signed Belovezhsky agreements with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine on the dissolution of the USSR and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

In the 1994 presidential election, he was defeated. He was in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, but he did not actively participate in political life in recent years.

Shushkevich has repeatedly been a guest of the broadcasts of Radio Liberty.