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Stanislav Shushkevich

, the first head of independent Belarus ,

died in Minsk on May 3 at 11:35 p.m.

He was 87 years old.

At the end of April, he entered the intensive care unit after contracting COVID-19.

Two days later he was discharged from the hospital, but the illness had already undermined the politician's health. Stanislau Shushkevich was a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, a professor, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, in 1991-1994 he headed the Supreme Council of the 12th convocation.

One of the signatories of the Białowieża Agreement, which put an end to the existence of the USSR.