Stanislau Shushkevich, the first head of state of independent Belarus, one of the three leaders who signed the December 1991 agreement declaring that the U.S.S.R. had ceased to exist, and a ...

Stanislav Shushkevich, who steered Belarus to independence during the breakup of the Soviet Union and served as its first leader and became an outspoken critic of the current Belarusian president ...

Lukashenko. By Neil Genzlinger Stanislav Shushkevich, the first leader of Belarus when the country became independent upon the Soviet Union’s collapse, and an outspoken critic of the man who ...

LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - Former Belarus leader Stanislav Shushkevich, the man who broke the news to Mikhail Gorbachev that the Soviet Union was being consigned to history, has died at the age of ...

Shushkevich was one of the three main actors, with Russian president Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine's Leonid Kravchuk, at a meeting in a Belarusian hunting lodge in December 1991 at which they sounded ...

Shushkevich: You know, a lot more has been said about him than I could even imagine. To speak more about him, well, first of all, I don't even want to. In fact, I don't think it was his work.

Belarusian statesman Stanislav Shushkevich, who died on May 3, is probably best remembered for hosting the meeting that ended the Soviet Union. On December 8, 1991, in a state guesthouse in the remote ...

Stanislav Shushkevich, who steered Belarus to independence during the breakup of the Soviet Union and served as its first leader, has died. He was 87. Shushkevich died early Wednesday, according ...

So when they agreed to meet on 8 December, with their Byelorussian counterpart, Stanislav Shushkevich, it could have been predicted that nothing good for Gorbachev would come of it. Image source ...

Stanislav Shushkevich, who steered Belarus to independence, served as its first leader and is reported to have taught Russian to John F Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the 1960s, has died at ...