Alaksandar Kazulin

Alyaksandr Kazulin (* 1955 in Minsk) is a Belarusian mathematician, educator and politician. He was chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party ( Hramada ).

Life

Alyaksandr Kazulin was from 1996 to 2003 Rector of the Belarusian State University and minister Alexander Lukashenko, until he fell out with the same or fell out of favor.

In the presidential election of 19 March 2006, he ran against Lukashenko. He ran this for the party alliance European Coalition Free Belarus. Here he reached according to official figures of 3.2 percent of the vote.

On 13 July 2006 Kazulin was sentenced by an unauthorized demonstration against the re- election of President Lukashenko because of " serious hooliganism " to five and a half years in a prison camp. The opposition deemed the verdict as politically motivated criminal action.

In December 2006, a move by the USA, to discuss the fate Kasulins the UN Security Council, to the fact that the Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin a meeting " should be clarified at the details of the planned over Iran's nuclear program sanctions," boycotted.

23 February 2008 Kasulins wife Iryna died of cancer. Alyaksandr Kazulin then began a hunger strike to force a temporary release from custody for the purpose of attending her funeral. He was then dismissed for three days from custody.

16 August 2008 Kazulin, for among other things the German Foreign Minister Frank -Walter Steinmeier had used was surprisingly released from custody. Earlier, the European Union had made a release Kasulins and other detained opposition politicians as a precondition for the revival of relations between Brussels and Minsk.