Alyaksandr Kasulin
| Cyrillic ( Belarusian ) | |
|---|---|
| Аляксандр Уладзіслававіч Казулін | |
| Łacinka : | Alaksandr Kazulin |
| Transl. : | Alyaksandr Kazulin |
| Transcr. : | Aljaksandr Uladsislavich Kasulin |
| Cyrillic ( Russian ) | |
| Александр Владиславович Козулин | |
| Transl .: | Aleksandr Vladislavovič Kozulin |
| Transcr .: | Alexander Wladislavowitsch Kosulin |
Aljaksandr Kasulin (* 1955 in Minsk ) is a Belarusian mathematician, educator and politician. He was chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) .
Life
Aljaksandr Kasulin was rector of the Belarusian State University and Minister under Aljaksandr Lukashenka from 1996 to 2003 , until he fell out with him or fell out of favor.
In the presidential election of March 19, 2006 , he ran against Lukashenka. He ran for the party alliance European Coalition Free Belarus . According to official information, he achieved 3.2 percent of the votes.
On July 13, 2006, Kasulin was sentenced to five and a half years in a camp for “serious hooliganism” after an unauthorized demonstration against the re-election of President Lukashenka. The opposition viewed the verdict as a politically motivated punitive action.
In December 2006, a US push to discuss the fate of Kasulin in the UN Security Council led Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin to boycott a meeting “to clarify the details of the sanctions planned for Iran's nuclear program”.
On February 23, 2008, Kasulin's wife Iryna succumbed to cancer. Aljaksandr Kasulin went on a hunger strike to force her to be released temporarily to attend her funeral. He was then released for three days.
On August 16, 2008, Kasulin, for whom the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier had campaigned, was surprisingly released from prison. The European Union had previously made the release of Kasulin and other imprisoned opposition politicians a prerequisite for revitalizing relations between Brussels and Minsk.
In 2015, Kasulin rejected all proposals to resume his political activities as a candidate in the 2015 presidential election in Belarus or to join the team of one of the opposition candidates. He called on the opposition leaders to boycott these bogus elections.
Web links
- Literature by and about Aljaksandr Kasulin in the catalog of the German National Library
- "Opposition leader arrested in Belarus" . In: Spiegel online , March 25, 2006.
- Amnesty International's appeal on the occasion of Kasulin's arrest
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Belarusian oppositionist Kosulin is free ( Memento from August 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ AP report. Reprint: Berliner Zeitung , December 14, 2006.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.belsat.eu/
- ↑ Александр Козулин: Какое участие в выборах, если выборов нет? July 1, 2015, accessed October 14, 2019 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kasulin, Alyaksandr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Аляксандр Казулін (Belarusian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian mathematician, educator and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minsk |