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Belarus leader who helped dissolve USSR dies at 87
As chairman of the Belarus Supreme Soviet, Shushkevich, along with Russian leader Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian leader Leonid Kravchuk, signed the 1991 declaration that dissolved the Soviet Union.
Ex-Soviet republics, Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk (2nd L), Belarus' Supreme Soviet Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich (3L), and Russian president Boris Yeltsin (2nd R) sign a communique/AFP FILE
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
The first head of state of an independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, who with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine signed a decree dissolving the Soviet Union, has died aged 87,