Boriss Cilevičs

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Boriss Cilevičs ( Russian Борис Цилевич , Boris Zilewitsch ; born March 26, 1956 in Daugavpils , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian engineer and politician. He has been a member of the Latvian Parliament, the Saeima , since 1998 .

biography

Cilevičs was born in Daugavpils as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants from Leningrad . After attending grammar school there, he studied mathematics and physics at the Latvian State University (LVU). In 1981 he earned a doctorate in mathematical and theoretical physics. In the 80s he worked as an engineer, then in the laboratory for computer science of the institute for mathematics and computer science of the LVU.

From the beginning of the 1990s Cilevičs took part in various social and political activities, including a member of the Latvian Popular Front . He worked as a journalist and became a member of the Latvian Journalists' Association in 1992. From 1995 he was director of the Center for Social and Educational Research "Baltic Insight".

politics

Boriss Cilevičs was one of the founders of the Tautas Saskaņas partija (TSP) in 1994 , for which he was elected to the Riga City Council in March 1997 .

In 1998 Cilevičs moved into the Saeima on the list of Tautas Saskaņas partija and has been a member of parliament ever since. In 2002 he joined the Par Cilvēka Tiesībām Vienotā Latvijā list , and in 2006 for Saskaņas Centrs . Since 2010 he has been a successful candidate for the Sociāldemokrātiskā Partija "Saskaņa" . He was a member of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs and is deputy chairman of the commission on human rights and social affairs.

In the legal dispute over the abolition of restrictions on the use of the Russian language in the mass media, he represented the plaintiff before the Latvian Constitutional Court.

Cilevičs has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 1999, and from 2005 to 2007 he was chairman of the subcommittee on national minorities. In 2003 and 2004 he was an observer and, for a short period of time, a member of the Latvian parliament .

Private

Boriss Cilevičs is married and has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mr Boriss CILEVIČS on the website of the Council of Europe ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2009 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. (English, viewed August 19, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / assembly.coe.int
  2. ^ Entry on Boriss Cilevičs in the European Parliament 's database of deputies