Alaksandar MilinkieviÄ
Alyaksandr Uladsimerawitsch Milinkievich ( born July 25, 1947 in the Hrodsenskaja Woblasz, Belarus ) is a Belarusian politician and physicist.
Alyaksandr Milinkevich comes from the family of a teacher. His great-grandfather took part in the Polish January Uprising of 1863-64, and was repressed by the Russian army. His grandfather was an activist of the Belarusian national movement in the 1920s.
1965 graduated Milinkievich school with honors. In 1969 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Pedagogical Institute Hrodna. Until 1972 he worked as a teacher, later, after defending his doctoral thesis, he was a scientist at the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
In 1976 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the " mechanism of generation via strong laser pulses ". Milinkievich returned to Grodno, where he worked as an engineer and professor. From 1978 to 2000 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Physics, University of Grodno. From 1980 to 1984 Milinkievich was head of the Department of Physics at the University of Sétif in Algeria. Later Milinkievich was a guest lecturer at the Universities of Montpellier (France) and University of California (USA).
Alyaksandr Milinkevich is married and father of two children.
Civil Service
From 1990 to 1996, Milinkievich Vice Mayor of Hrodna. It dealt with issues of education, health, youth, sports, media, religion and monuments. From 1996 he was chairman of the NGO " Ratusha " in Grodno, which was banned by the government in 2003. From 2001 Milinkievich was chief of staff of the presidential candidate of the united opposition Sjamjon Domasch. Since 2003 he is program director of the Foundation for Promotion of regional development.
On 2 October 2005, the Belarusian opposition parties Alyaksandr Milinkevich have nominated their common candidate for the presidential election in 2006 on 19 March. Some observers predicted the fact that his ( promising ) candidacy of President Lukashenka might be prohibited by legal tricks; by political visits to Russia and EU countries ( and Others on 2 February 2006 at Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier ) but he has successfully sought political support it. His competitors Alyaksandr Kazulin and Syarhey Hajdukewitsch had no real choice opportunities, according to observers.
End of April 2006 Milinketwitsch was arrested for " incitement to civil disobedience " after a large opposition rally on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and sentenced to 15 days in jail. He even spoke of a politically motivated trials.
Public and scientific work
Milinkievich is known as a historian and regional scientists. For ten years he was the author of a program about the history of his region in Hrodnaer television. On the initiative of Milinkievich the clock tower of Grodno was - one of Europe's oldest watch (15th-16th century. ) - Restored. Milinkievich initiated the search and study of the remains of the tomb of the last king of Poland - Lithuania Stanisław August Poniatowski.
1968-1969 was Milinkievich Belarusian champions in basketball. 1996-1997 he was president of the Basketball Federation Grodno - 93rd Milinkievich is the author of 65 scientific works on quantum electronics, laser technology, history, culture, education and architecture of Belarus.
Awards: Medal " For outstanding contribution to Polish culture " (Poland), International Prize of the independent foundation " PolCul " (Australia), Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2006 and 2007, the Hanno R. elbow Citizenship Award by the Prague Society for International Cooperation and the Global panel Foundation.