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Ryhor Kastusioŭ
Ryhor Kastusioŭ (; ) (17 April 1957 in Tekhtin, Mogilev Region) is a Belarusian politician, head of the Mogilev regional Coalition of Democratic Forces. He was chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front Party from 30 September 2017 until 12 April 2022. Biography After graduating from the Tekhtin secondary school, in 1974 he became a member of the Drut state farm. After completing his military service (1975-1977) in the Soviet Armed Forces and training at the Belarusian Agricultural Academy (1977-1982) he returned to his state farm as the head of the workshop, and since 1983 he became the chief engineer. In 1988 he was elected director of the Iskra state farm. In 1991, he moved to work in Shklov, first as the chief mechanic of MPMK-283, and from 1995 to 2001 he held the position of director of the Shklov district production association of housing and communal services. He left the post under pressure from the authorities, who accused him of supporting the opposition during the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Belarusian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 17 October 2004, with a second round of voting in two constituencies on 27 October, and a third round in one on 20 March 2005.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p252 The vast majority of successful candidates, 98 of 110, were independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 90% in the first round.Belarus: Elections held in 2004 Inter-Parliamentary Union A total of 359 candidates contested the election, with opposing parties claiming that around 40% of their candidates were not registered. The OCSE delegation noted that although all candidates w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BPF Party Politicians
BPF may refer to: Organisations * Badminton Players Federation, an independent organisation of badminton * Banco Português de Fomento, a Portuguese state-owned development bank headquartered in Porto * Belarusian Popular Front, a political party * Belize People's Front, a political party * Bodoland People's Front, Kokrajhar * Botswana Patriotic Front, a political party * British Plastics Federation, a UK trade association * British Polio Fellowship, a medical research charity * British Property Federation, a membership organisation * Buddhist Peace Fellowship, a nonsectarian international network * Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong, a think tank Science and technology * Band-pass filter, a device that passes frequencies within a certain range * Berkeley Packet Filter, a mechanism to write/read packets to/from network interface ** eBPF, an extended version used to run sandboxed programs in the operating system * Bisphenol F, a synthetic compound used in the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusian Dissidents
Belarusian may refer to: * Something of, or related to Belarus * Belarusians, people from Belarus, or of Belarusian descent * A citizen of Belarus, see Demographics of Belarus * Belarusian language * Belarusian culture * Belarusian cuisine * Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic See also * * Belorussky (other) Belorussky (masculine), Belorusskaya (feminine), or Belorusskoye (neuter) may refer to: * Belorussky Rail Terminal, a rail terminal in Moscow, Russia * Belorussky (settlement), a settlement in Pskov Oblast, Russia * Belorusskaya (Koltsevaya line), ... {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1957 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having handled the ball, in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is released in Japan. * January 20 ** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). * January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meduza
''Meduza'' (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek goddess Medusa) is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent '' Lenta.ru'' news website. Free mobile applications for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android became the basis of the media. A semi-official motto of the portal is "Make the Kremlin sad". History In 2014, Galina Timchenko was fired from her job as chief editor at ''Lenta.ru'' by oligarch Alexander Mamut, a supporter of Vladimir Putin, after she had interviewed Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh. She launched the new webpage ''Meduza'' on 25 October 2014. Several former journalists of ''Lenta.ru'' joined the new online site. Timchenko told ''Forbes'' that the decision to base ''Meduza'' in Latvia was made since "right now, establishing an independent Russian language publishing house in Latvia is possible, while in Russia it is not". Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Coup
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a distinct military uniform. They may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of a military is usually defined as defence of their state and its interests against external armed threats. In broad usage, the terms "armed forces" and "military" are often synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include other paramilitary forces such as armed police. Beyond warfare, the military may be employed in additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within the state, including internal security threats, crowd control, promotion of political agendas, emergency services and reconstruction, pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuras Zyankovich
Youras Ziankovich (; born 31 October 1977, Minsk) is a Belarusian opposition politician, journalist and American lawyer. In 2003–2007 he was a deputy of the Minsk Regional Council of Deputies. Biography Born on October 31, 1977, in Minsk. Lived in the village of Zhdanovichi, Minsk District, Minsk Region, Belarusian SSR. Ziankovich graduated from Mathematical School No. 50 in Minsk and entered the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the Belarusian State University. There he joined the democratic movement, he joined the Union of Belarusian Students and the Free Trade Union of Students. After the first year, he decided to change his study profile and entered the law faculty of BSU. However, right before the beginning of the academic year, he received a message that he was enrolled "by mistake." As a result, he went to study in Poland, where he studied shortly at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and at the University of Warsaw. At the same time, he cooperated with the Belarusia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyaksandr Feduta
Alyaksandr Iosifovich Feduta (; born 3 November 1964 in Grodno) is a Soviet and Belarusian politician, literary critic and political scientist. Candidate of Philology, Doctor of Humanities (Poland) in the specialization Literary Studies and one of the authors of the Great Russian Encyclopedia. Biography Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Grodno State University (1986), worked as a teacher of the Russian language and literature (1986–1991). In 1990 he was elected secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, in December 1991 he was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Youth of Belarus, remained in this position until 1994. In 1994, he became a member of the campaign headquarters of Alexander Lukashenko. After the victory of the latter, he became the head of the socio-political information department of the Presidential Administration of Belarus. At the beginning of 1995, he was fired and worked as a journalist for a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk
Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk region and Minsk district. it has a population of about two million, making Minsk the Largest cities in Europe, 11th-most populous city in Europe. Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). First mentioned in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk, an appanage of the Principality of Polotsk, before being annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of Minsk Voivodeship, an administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of the territories annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
