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  Stanislav Shushkevich - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In late 1993, Alexander Lukashenko, the then chairman of the anti-corruption committee of the Belarusian parliament, accused 70 senior government officials, including Stanislav Shushkevich, the then speaker of the parliament and the acting president, of corruption including stealing state funds for personal purposes.
Shushkevich sued the Belarusian Social Security Ministry: because of inflation his retirement pension of a former head of the state constituted 1 dollar 80 cents monthly.
Stanislav Shushkevich, 1934 births, Belarusian politicians and Belarusian scientists.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Stanislav_Shushkevich   (352 words)

  
 Belarussian Challenges Punishment by Pension   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
But his predecessor as president, Stanislav Shushkevich, is suffering in especially cruel and unusual fashion: the government refuses to index his monthly pension for inflation.
Shushkevich, then the chairman of his nation's Supreme Soviet, met with President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia and Ukraine's leader, Leonid Kravchuk, at a Belarussian hunting lodge and signed the papers that dissolved the Soviet Union.
Shushkevich was a member of Belarus's democratic opposition, drawing a monthly pension of about 3.2 million rubles, about $200, for his past service as the chairman of Belarus's Supreme Soviet.
www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2002/Pension.html   (527 words)

  
 [ whollyshift.info | Stanislav Shushkevich Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On December 8, 1991, in Belavezhskaya Pushcha calm with the captains of Russia (Boris Yeltsin) Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk) he foreshadowinged a declaration that the Soviet Union was dissolved replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.
In dilatory 1993, Alexander Lukashenko, the sky in again chairman of the anti-corruption committee of the Belarusian parliament, accused 70 senior supervision officials, along with Stanislav Shushkevich, the sky in again speaker of the parliament the pro tempore president, of corruption along with filching nature store for secluded purposes.
Shushkevich sued the Belarusian Social Security Ministry: whereas of up retirement pension of a former of the nature constituted 1 iron man 80 cents monthly.
www.whollyshift.info /Stanislav_Shushkevich   (349 words)

  
 Belarus - Thrust to the sidelines of history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Stanislav Shushkevich pads around his wood-walled dacha wearing coveralls, a lumberjack shirt and suspenders, his thick fingers dirty from a morning spent working around the small countryside cottage.
Shushkevich finished fourth in that vote, his popularity damaged by his refusal to answer allegations that he had stolen a box of nails from the state for private use at his dacha.
Shushkevich is, or, as in the case of a half-dozen key activists, have mysteriously disappeared and are now feared dead.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1121820/posts   (1044 words)

  
 Shushkevich, Stanislav - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Shushkevich, Stanislav   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Shushkevich, the son of a poet who died in the gulag, was educated at the University of Belarus in Minsk and gained a doctorate in technical education; he was deputy rector for science at the Lenin State University in Minsk.
He entered politics as a result of his concern at the Soviet cover-up of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Shushkevich%2c+Stanislav   (173 words)

  
 Personal Profiles, September-October 1992   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Session of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus elected Stanislav S. Shushkevich as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus on September 18, 1991.
Shushkevich started his career in 1959 as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Physics of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, later becoming chief engineer at a Minsk radio factory.
Shushkevich was elected the First Vice Chairman of the Supreme Soviet.
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Chairman Shushkevich responded to the President's opening by saying that he felt that Partnership For Peace was a very, very positive and promising concept.
Chairman Shushkevich* said that dealing with denuclearization was a huge problem, and a very large percentage of their budget.
Shushkevich is a nuclear physicist who came to politics late in life.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/archives/whitehouse-papers/1994/Jan/Background-Briefing-in-Minsk-Belarus-1994-01-15   (2658 words)

  
 info: Stanislav_Shushkevich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
ECLA - Alumni - European College of Liberal Arts, BerlinAt the conclusion of the conference, the former president of the Belarussian republic, Stanislav Shushkevich, spoke to the participants about the concerns and hopes of the democratic opposition in...
NON-PROLIFERATION TREATYHead of State Stanislav Shushkevich presented the instrument of accession to President Clinton at the White House during a meeting in the Oval Office.
EEM - Eastern European MissionThe reform-minded Stanislav Shushkevich became head of state and, along with Russia and Ukraine, Belarus was one of the original signatories to the treaty establishing the Commonwealth of Independent...
www.napoli-pizza.net /Stanislav_Shushkevich.html   (609 words)

  
 Court Denies Stanislav Shushkevich Personal Pension :: Charter'97 :: News :: 13/03/2002
Following his retirement as chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus Shushkevich was assigned a pension of 75% to the salary of the acting head of state.
However, in 1997 Alexander Lukashenko released an order “On pension provision of individuals, who have particular merits before the Republic of Belarus”, by means of which he cancelled the concomitant Supreme Soviet’s ruling “On provision, support and protection of the chair of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus”.
In their opinion, Shushkevich cannot receive personal pension as far as he, according to Lukashenko’s order, is not included into the list of individuals, due to be paid such pension.
www.charter97.org /eng/news/2002/03/13/04   (405 words)

  
 Shushkevich: Belarusian Election A Farce - Council on Foreign Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
One of the Belarusian opposition's few elder statesmen is former physicist Stanislav Shushkevich.
He was directly involved in the campaign of opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich, who lost overwhelmingly to incumbent President Alexander Lukashenka in Belarus' March 19 presidential poll (ElectionGuide.org), which he says was "absolutely falsified." Independent monitors say the election was far from fair.
Cfr.org interviewed Shushkevich in his Minsk apartment, a humble place outfitted in traditional Belarusian red and white flags, which were banned in Belarus in favor of a Soviet-style flag.
www.cfr.org /publication/10185/shushkevich.html   (1710 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: In the Land Where Soviet Style Lives On
Stanislav Shushkevich, the former head of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus and current leader of the Social Democratic Party, voices skepticism about the democratic movement's chances of making any headway this year, even as he remains committed to the idea of democracy.
He points out that Belarusans have been conditioned by centuries of oppression to put up with almost anything; a quarter of the pre-war Belarusan population was murdered by the Soviets and the Nazis in the 1930s and '40s.
When I visited him in the capital city of Minsk last May, Shushkevich, who is nearing 70, speculated that the moment for peaceful transition may have been lost.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A1924-2004Oct1?language=printer   (1491 words)

  
 Belarus News and Analysis | Lukashenko's early career
In late 1993, he accused 70 senior government officials, including Stanislav Shushkevich, the speaker of the parliament and the acting president, of corruption and stealing state funds for personal purposes.
Later the accusations against Shushkevich proved to be without merit.
Shushkevich and Vyacheslav Kebich also ran, with the latter regarded as the clear favorite.
www.data.minsk.by /belarusnews/032006/196.html   (369 words)

  
 Politics of Belarus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ukraine's declaration of independence, in particular, led the leaders of then Byelorussian SSR to realize that the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapsing, which it did.
After the establishment of a Republic on August 25, 1991, Stanislav Shushkevich was selected to be the first Belarusian leader and held this position until 1994.
During that time frame, Shushkevich directed his country in a way to become free from its Soviet past and try to look towards to the West.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Government_of_Belarus   (4626 words)

  
 Belarus Brokers Russia’s Arms Deals Says Stanislav Shushkevich :: Charter'97 :: News :: 01/03/2002
Former head of the Belarusian Parliament, leader of the Belarusian social-democratic party Stanislav Shushkevich said Russia is using Belarus as a channel for shipping her arms to Iraq, Iran and Libya.
As stressed by Shushkevich in his interview to the radio “Echo of Moscow”, he “is almost convinced that Russia is using this channel, for Belarus has not enough weapons for that purpose nor can it possibly have”.
Shushkevich pointed out that Belarus is regularly visited by representatives of countries, linked to the terrorist activities, which are so respected by Lukashenka.
www.charter97.org /eng/news/2002/03/01/18   (335 words)

  
 Alexander Lukashenko - Early career (to 1994)
In late 1993, he accused 70 senior government officials, including Stanislav Shushkevich, the speaker of the parliament and the acting president, of corruption including stealing state funds for personal purposes.
Later the accusations of Shushkevich proved to be without merit.
Six candidates stood, including Lukashenko, who campaigned as an independent on a populist platform of "defeat the mafia." Shushkevich and Vyacheslav Kebich also ran, with the latter regarded as the clear favourite.
www.spiritus-temporis.com /alexander-lukashenko/early-career-(to-1994).html   (558 words)

  
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Stanislav Shushkevich, the former chairman of the Belarussian Supreme Soviet, became famous as one of the architects of the Belavezhye agreements that put an end to the Soviet Union in December 1991.
The agreements, signed by Shushkevich, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his Ukrainian colleague, Leonid Kravchuk, are very unpopular with many Belarussians who have relatives in Russia and the other former Soviet republics.
The Congress’s participants apparently believed that Milinkevich stands a chance against Lukashenko despite the fact that he is a virtual unknown to most voters.
courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/050Compecon/Soviet/Belarus/051003candidate.txt   (828 words)

  
 1993 Human Rights Report: BELARUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Shushkevich is supported by the democratic opposition, including the opposition Popular Front, in addition to many deputies in the mainstream.
Shushkevich's major source of support is his personal popularity among the Belarusian people.
The Chairman of the City Executive Council, Stanislav Shidlovskiy, filed suit in March, demanding a public apology and 10 million rubles.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_eur/Belarus.html   (5125 words)

  
 CFR Bio: Stanislav Shushkevich - Council on Foreign Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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Stanislav Shushkevich interviewed by Lionel Beehner, Staff Writer
www1.cfr.org /bios/12094/stanislav_shushkevich.html   (290 words)

  
 Portal of Reason S1: Lukashenko: The Antithesis of Freedom
They did not call themselves communists, but in fact they were.“ Within three years, despite the best attempts of Premier Stanislav Shushkevich to liberalize the economy and institute privatization, no formidable ideological opposition to collapsed Communist lore was established.
Another news report gave the spotlight to a Russian “philosopher,” who proclaimed that “globalization is beneficial for the technologically advanced countries of the West, but is disastrous for the remainder of the world, as it deprives it of jobs and working conditions.” Would Karl Marx have said anything different?
This new brand of indoctrination is not of the old Soviet slogan-hollering sort, but, as Stanislav Shushkevich correctly notes, is of a subtler sort.
www.geocities.com /effecohq/portalofreasonS1.html   (2784 words)

  
 William J. Clinton Foundation "Statement by Press Secretary on Belarus"
The President noted that Belarus is the first of the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union to fully honor its commitments under the Lisbon Protocol to ratify START and accede to the NPT.
He applauded this courageous step, stating that under the leadership of Chairman Shushkevich, Belarus has been in the forefront of the global effort to safeguard mankind from the threat of nuclear destruction.
Chairman Shushkevich's visit to Washington represents the President's first official meeting in the United States with the head of state of one of the Newly Independent States.
www.clintonfoundation.org /legacy/072293-statement-by-press-secretary-on-belarus.htm   (253 words)

  
 State “Interference” in University Slammed
Stanislav Shushkevich, a former speaker of parliament who is now part of the opposition, told IWPR that the university is not valued just for its high academic standards, “There is freedom of thought among its teachers and students.
However, Shushkevich told IWPR that there are important differences between the two cases.
The government closed down the lyceum because it inspired a kind of patriotism they found distasteful, he said, whereas the EHU is known for steering clear of Belarusian politics and limiting itself to academia.
www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2004/Interference.html   (656 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - News - IN BRIEF
The film, in which Berezovsky accuses the Federal Security Service of complicity in the deadly apartment bombings, was first presented at a news conference in London last month and then screened at the Sakharov Museum in Moscow and, since then, in several Russian cities.
As the value of the Belarussian ruble has dwindled, Shushkevich has seen his pension shrink from $200 to $2, he said before attending the anti-government rally.
There were only two former chairpeople, Shushkevich and Seymon Sharetsky, a former opposition leader who now lives in the United States.
www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=6784   (1036 words)

  
 Democracy Beyond The Baltics: Target - Belarus
Although democracy in Belarus is seen as being essential for the development of its state, its dedication to capitalism is not seen as an inevitable outcome of the needed economic reform.
Paradoxically, the first independent Head of State, Stanislav Shushkevich, was ousted by the parliament in 1994 in protest against his support for market economics.
It is possible that ten years of market socialism, installed by Lukashenka in 1994, has changed the hearts and minds of Belarusian economists and businessman.
www.jbanc.org /back4.html   (2530 words)

  
 Soviet Collapse Anniversary - Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine Declaration of End of Soviet Union
With those contradictory emotions, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus marked the 10th anniversary Saturday of the secret talks that sealed the collapse of the Soviet Union, wrenching apart the communist empire that helped define global politics for three-quarters of a century.
From a hunting lodge in a Belarusian forest, former presidents Boris Yeltsin of Russia, Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine and Stanislav Shushkevich of Belarus announced to the world on Dec. 8, 1991 that the U.S.S.R. ``as a subject of international and geopolitical reality no longer exists.''
Shushkevich recalled that the agreement was signed by 2 p.m.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5587-6.cfm   (654 words)

  
 FONDATION ROBERT SCHUMAN
The lack of reform and a policy relying on opinion polls are, in Stoiber's opinion, the reasons why Germany has the one of the lowest growth rates in Europe.
Stanislav Shushkevich, the former Belarus leader is taking legal action against President Lukashenko in order to win the reassessment of his pension that has dropped from 200 to 2 euros.
Shushkevich, who was a signatory of the document creating the CEI with Boris Eltsine and Leonid Kravchuk says he is the victim of revenge.
www.robert-schuman.org /lettre/lettrean69.htm   (1140 words)

  
 Right Ways. » Blog Archive » Hall of Shame. Top Dictators and #1 Nominee Alexander “Father” ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In late 1993, he accused 70 senior government officials, including Stanislav Shushkevich, the speaker of the parliament and the acting president, of corruption including stealing state funds for personal purposes.(In case some of you do not know this, Shushkevich stole a box (literally) of screws).
Later the accusations of Shushkevich proved to be without merit.(somehow it does not surprise)
A second round was held on July 10 in which Lukashenko won over 80% (Everybody likes bogus statistics) of the vote.
www.wrongways.com /hall-of-shame-top-dictators-and-1-nominee-alexander-father-lukashenko   (542 words)

  
 Belarus Project
In these meetings, the opposition leaders voiced their concerns over threats to Belarusian sovereignty, and also urged U.S. officials not to support parliamentary elections in Belarus until the opposition was given access to the state-controlled media, political prisoners were released, and the Electoral Code was amended.
The 13th Supreme Soviet is the democratically elected Parliament of Belarus, which the Lukashenko regime illegally disbanded in 1996 and replaced with a rubber-stamp body.
Several days ago, the cases of Shushkevich, Dogel, Volobuyev, and Lazarev were separated from the others and they were charged additionally with malicious hooliganism.
www.ilhr.org /ilhr/regional/belarus/updates/2000/06.htm   (3816 words)

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