Viktor Uladzimirovich Scheiman

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Viktor Uladsimirowitsch Scheiman ( Belarusian Віктар Уладзіміравіч Шэйман; Russian Виктор Владимирович Шейман * 26. May 1958 in Rajon Woronowski , Grodno Region , Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR ) is a Belarusian politician and statesman.

biography

Scheiman is a graduate of the Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank School and the Academy of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Belarus . He did his military service in the airborne troops of the Soviet Union and took part in Soviet military operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s . At the time of his election as Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic of the 12th Convocation, Scheiman served in 1990 with the rank of major as deputy commander of the 38th Belarusian Air Strike Brigade.

From 1990 to 1994 Scheiman was a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus and the Secretary of the Supreme Council Commission on National Security, Defense and Crime Fighting. In the 1994 presidential election, he clearly stood alongside Aljaksandr Lukashenka .

Between December 1995 and November 2000, Scheiman held the post of State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus. During this period he also served as the country's interior minister.

In November 2000, Scheiman was appointed Attorney General of Belarus and remained in that post until the end of 2004 before moving to the presidential administration. In December 2005 he founded an initiative group to support Lukashenka in the presidential elections in 2006 and personally led his entire election campaign.

In March 2006, Scheiman was given a new position as State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus. In July 2008, Lukashenka dismissed Scheiman from his position. The reason given by the Belarusian President was the explosion in Minsk during the celebrations on Independence Day and the associated security gaps. But in January 2009 Lukashenka appointed Scheiman to be his representative for special questions. He was released from this position four years later.

criticism

The critics accuse Scheiman of having abused his office as attorney general in order to shut down the opposition newspaper "Swoboda". Political opposition groups and international human rights organizations also accuse him of organizing the so-called "death squads". They are said to have been responsible for the murder of the opposition politicians and of Dmitri Savadski , the correspondent of the Russian television station Perwy Kanal . In 2006 Scheiman and 40 other members of the Belarusian government were banned from entering the European Union and the USA because of the election manipulation . In 2008 he was removed from the sanctions list.

In 2018, Scheiman was once again put on the sanctions list of the EU and the USA. The US government claims that Scheiman is one of the biggest obstacles to democratic change in Belarus.

Private

Scheiman is married and has a son and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Виктор Шейман | НОВОСТИ | TUT.BY. Retrieved December 16, 2018 (Russian).
  2. ↑ COUNCIL DECISION 2012/642 / CFSP of 15 October 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Belarus. October 17, 2012, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Чем санкции Евросоюза отзовутся для Беларуси? February 1, 2011, Retrieved December 16, 2018 (Russian).
  4. ↑ Санкции против Виктора Шеймана. March 12, 2018, Retrieved December 16, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Scheiman, Viktor Uladzimirovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian politician and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Voronovsky Raion , Hrodsenskaya Woblasz , Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR