The first independent president of Belarus and one of the gravediggers of the USSR, Stanislav Shuchkevitch, died at the age of 87 from the consequences of Covid-19, his wife announced on Wednesday May 4.
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He left us on May 3 at 11:55 p.m.
,” his widow, Irina, told the Russian agency Ria Novosti, information that she also confirmed to several Belarusian media.