Alfred Rubiks
Alfred Petrowitsch Rubiks ( Russian Альфред Петрович Рубикс , Latvian Alfrēds Rubiks ; born September 24, 1935 in Daugavpils , Latvia) is a former Soviet and current Latvian politician . He was chairman of the Socialist Party of Latvia , was 2nd chairman of the former party alliance Saskaņas Centrs and a former member of the European Parliament .
Youth and times of the Soviet Union
Alfrēds Rubiks comes from a rural background. His father died in the Red Army in World War II - his stepfather was in the Latvian Legion . At the age of fifteen he organized a Komsomol group in his settlement. From 1954 he studied at the Latvian State University . He then worked in a Riga mechanical engineering factory and did his military service. In 1959 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later (from 1962 to 1982) worked in the Komsomol. In 1963 he graduated from the Riga Polytechnic as an engineer. From 1976 he held offices in the Riga city administration. In 1980 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Party School and since 1984 has been the head of the Riga city administration. Afterwards he was a member of the highest Soviet of the Latvian SSR and from 1990 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia . From 1990 to 1991 Rubiks was a member of the Politburo of the CPSU .
After Latvian independence
In 1991 he felt “joy and pride” about the August coup of anti- perestroika communists against the president and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev and headed the emergency committee in Latvia. After the coup failed and his party was banned, Rubiks was arrested in 1991 and charged with " high treason ". In 1993 he moved to the Saeima , the parliament of the now independent Republic of Latvia, for the candidate list Līdztiesība ( Eng .: equality) . In 1995, a court sentencing to 8 years in prison for "activities aimed at a coup" became final. Rubiks was released early in November 1997 and was involved in the formation of the party alliance for human rights in a united Latvia in 1998 . In 1999 Rubiks became chairman of the Socialist Party of Latvia and remained so until 2015. He was also temporarily editor of the magazines " Latvijas Sociālists " and " Марксизм и современность ".
From 2005 to 2014 Rubiks was second chairman of the party alliance Saskaņas Centrs . From 2009 to 2014 he was a member of the European Parliament . There he joined the European United Left / Nordic Green Left group.
Private life
Alfred Rubiks is married and has two children. Fishing is one of his hobbies.
Fonts
- " Голосовали цветами " (Рассказ политзаключенного-кандидата в президенты Латвии) - Rīga ", 1997 (also published as" президенты Латвии) - Rīga ", 1997 (also published as" президенты Латвии), 1997 (also published as "президенты Латвии) Moscow ", 1997 (also published as " печечана " пофечиме "пофеч - 1999 - Moscow : печеваначиме пнавитачиме печет 1999 - Moscow : печеначитечел: пнафечан 1999 - Отечьме печел : 1999 - Moscow.
- " Требyю признать невиновным " - Publisher: Международные отношения, Moscow 2001, ISBN 5-7133-1081-7
Web links
- Personal data on the Saskaņas centrs website
- Address to a meeting of the Central Committee of the renewed CPSU (2004) (in Russian)
- Entry on Alfred Rubiks in the Members' database of the European Parliament
literature
- Vera Butler: Defies the reaction: Latvia's Alfred Rubiks. (in: RotFuchs , May 2006 edition (PDF; 1.1 MB), p. 24)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel , edition 35/1991, p. 145 .
- ↑ ibid, p. 146.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rubiks, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Рубикс, Альфред Петрович (Russian); Rubiks, Alfrēds (Latvian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet or Latvian politician, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Daugavpils |