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On May 4, 2022 Stanislas Shushkevich — the first leader independent Belarus which was an one of signed the Belovezhsky agreement on elimination of the USSR and creation of the Union of the Independent States died. As there were destinies of leaders of federal republics of that time — in a photo gallery of newspaper "Kommersant". On October 18, 1991 Stanislas Shushkevich became the chairman Verkhovny Sovet Republics Belarus. On June 23, 1994 he lost presidential elections to Alexander Lukashenko the Photo: Youri Nikolaevich Feklistov / the Photoarchive magazine "Ogonyok" / newspaper "Kommersant" Having left a post of the head Belarus, passed into opposition. Headed Belarusian...