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Piotr Sadouski, a prominent Belarusian linguist, politician, and diplomat, has died at the age of 87. His daughter, Alina, announced his death.
“Friends, late this evening my father, Piotra Sadouski, passed away in hospice. The farewell ceremony will be tomorrow. I will provide additional details,” she wrote on Facebook.
Piotr Sadouski was born in 1939. He graduated from the Minsk Suvorov Military School and the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. He earned a Candidate of Sciences degree in philology and worked as a university lecturer.
In 1990, Sadouski was elected to the Supreme Soviet, where he was a member of the Belarusian Popular Front faction. He chaired the Commission on International Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations. From 1992 to 1994, he served as Belarus’s ambassador to Germany.
He remained a member of parliament until early 1996 and took part in the parliamentary hunger strike.
In 2008, his memoir, My Shibboleth, was published.
In late 2019, he participated in protests against deeper integration with Russia.