Alfrēds Rubiks
Alfred Rubiks Petrovich (Russian Альфред Петрович Рубикс, Latvian Alfrēds Rubiks; * September 24, 1935 in Daugavpils ) is a Latvian a former Soviet and current politician. He is chairman of the Socialist Party of Latvia, 2.Vorsitzender alliance of parties Saskaņas Centrs and Member of the European Parliament.
Youth and time of the Soviet Union
The farmer's son Alfred Rubiks learned early agricultural work know. Age of fifteen, he organized a Komsomol group in his village. His father was killed in World War II in the Red Army - his step- father was in the Latvian Legion. From 1954 he studied at the Latvian State University. He then worked in a Riga Engineering Plant and did his military service. In 1959 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was later ( 1962-1982 ) worked in the Komsomol. In 1963 he made the Riga Polytechnic an engineering degree. From 1976, he held offices in the Riga City Council. In 1980 he graduated from the Higher Party School Leningrad. After that, he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR (from 1990 First Secretary ) and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia.
The CPSU introduced him in 1984 to the post of chairman of the Riga City Council. Until 1991 he was a member of the Politburo of the CPSU.
When Latvia regained its independence
In 1991 he felt about the August coup Perestroika anti- communists against the President and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev " pride and joy " and was at the head of the Emergency Committee in Latvia. After the failure of the coup and ban his party Rubiks was arrested in 1991 and of " high treason " accused. In 1993 he moved to the candidate list Līdztiesība ( dt: equality) in the Saeima, the parliament of the newly independent Republic of Latvia, a. In 1995 a court sentenced to 8 years in prison was because of " activities aimed at a coup d'etat " final. Rubiks was released early in November 1997 and was involved in 1998 in the creation of party alliance For Human Rights in a United Latvia. 1999 Rubik became chairman of the Socialist Party of Latvia. He was also temporarily editor of the magazines Latvijas Socialists "and" Марксизм и современность ".
Since 2005 Rubik 's second chairman of the party alliance Saskaņas Centrs. In 2009 he was elected to the European Parliament. There he joined the Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left.
Private life
Alfreds Rubiks is married and has two children. Fishing is one of his hobbies.
Writings
- " Голосовали цветами " ( Рассказ политзаключенного - кандидата в президенты Латвии ) - Riga, 1997 ( also published as " Отечество - боль моя " in Publisher: " Информпечать " Moscow, 1999. )
- " Требyю признать невиновным " - Publisher: Международные отношения, Moscow 2001, ISBN 5-7133-1081-7