Stanislav Shushkevich. Archive photoMINSK, May 6. In Minsk, farewell to the former chairman of the Supreme Council, the first leader of independent Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich, who died on the night of May 4, began, according to the website of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus. Previously planned that the farewell ceremony will take place on May 7 in the archcathedral church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Minsk. But they decided to increase the duration of the ceremony: the body is available for parting from Friday evening. According to the message, from the evening of May 6 there is «the opportunity to say goodbye in silence and individual prayer for eternal life for the deceased Stanislav.» The main part of the farewell ceremony will take place on Saturday. It will begin at 10.00 Moscow time, and at 12.00 a memorial service will take place. Shushkevich died on the night of May 4. According to his widow, the consequences of the coronavirus led to death. Shushkevich was born on December 15, 1934 in Minsk. In October 1991, he was elected Chairman of the Supreme Council, holding this post until 1994. On December 8, 1991, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha (Belarus), Shushkevich, Presidents of Russia Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk signed an agreement on the creation of the CIS, which stated the demise of the USSR. .jpg» />Biography of Stanislav Shushkevich
