{"id":557255,"date":"2026-07-06T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=557255"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:01:28","slug":"diplomat-and-linguist-piotr-sadouski-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/diplomat-and-linguist-piotr-sadouski-dies","title":{"rendered":"Diplomat and Linguist Piotr Sadouski Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Piotr Sadouski<\/b>, a prominent Belarusian linguist, politician, and diplomat, has died at the age of 87. His daughter, Alina, announced his death.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Friends, late this evening my father, Piotra Sadouski, passed away in hospice. The farewell ceremony will be tomorrow. I will provide additional details,&#8221;<\/i> she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alina.fridrich\/posts\/pfbid0329YGR5q3uUHZtUKFxUG2kmzpNFUPNaQaJNjHvFLyLon9Ur1xxnsJRcnRx9PW7t3ml\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s ambassador to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>He remained a member of parliament until early 1996 and took part in the parliamentary hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, his memoir, <i>My Shibboleth<\/i>, was published.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2019, he participated in protests against deeper integration with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piotr Sadouski, a prominent Belarusian linguist, politician, and diplomat, has died at the age of 87. His daughter, Alina, announced his death. &#8220;Friends, late this evening my father, Piotra Sadouski, passed away in hospice. The farewell ceremony will be tomorrow. I will provide additional details,&#8221; she wrote on Facebook. Piotr Sadouski was born in 1939. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":557254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4b6eed2736c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Diplomat and Linguist Piotr Sadouski Dies"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}