Myechyslaw Hryb | |
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Мечыслаў Грыб Мечислав Гриб | |
Chairman of the Supreme Council Of Belarus (acting) | |
In office 28 January 1994 –10 January 1996 | |
Prime Minister | Vyacheslav Kebich Mikhail Chigir |
Preceded by | Stanislav Shushkevich Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (acting) |
Succeeded by | Alexander Lukashenko (as head of state) Anatoly Malofeyev (as Speaker of Parliament) |
Personal details | |
Born | Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb 25 September 1938 Sawicze,Nowogródek Voivodeship,Second Polish Republic |
Political party | Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly) |
Ethnicity | Belarusian |
Military service | |
Branch/service | Militsiya (Belarus) |
Years of service | 1959-1994 |
Rank | Lieutenant General |
Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb [lower-alpha 1] (born 25 September 1938) is a Belarusian politician who was the eleventh Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus from 28 January 1994 to 10 January 1996. In his capacity as the head of state,Hryb adopted the first Constitution of Belarus. [1] He succeeded Stanislav Shushkevich and was head of state from 28 January to 20 July 1994 until Alexander Lukashenko replaced him in the new office called President of Belarus,which became the new head of state office. He continued as a parliamentary speaker. Hryb is now a politician in the opposition and a member of the Social-Democratic Party. [2]
Myechyslaw Hryb was born on September 25,1938,in the village of Sawicze,then part of the Second Polish Republic (now the Dyatlovsky District of the Grodno Oblast),into a peasant family. A year later,World War II began,during which his father,Ivan,would die.
He went to school in Dyatlovo and began working from the seventh grade,first digging peat,then as an auxiliary worker at a construction site. [3]
In 1959 he graduated from the Lviv State University of Life Safety,and upon returning to Belarus,he worked as a fire inspector for three years and became interested in the investigation of fires and arson. He entered the Faculty of Law of the Belarusian State University in absentia. He served as a police inspector of the Internal Affairs Department of the Plissky District Executive Committee of the Vitebsk Region. From 1962 to 1981,he served in various law enforcement positions in Vitebsk. In 1967,he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Belarusian State University.
In 1981,he was made head of the Public Order Protection Department of the MVD of the BSSR. Four years later,in 1985,he was promoted to Head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. Immediately after his appointment,he headed the investigation of the so-called "Vitebsk Case" on the serial killer and rapist Gennady Mikhasevich.
In 1990,Hryb took part in the parliamentary elections and won in his area. In the same year,he joined the Democratic Club,created in the Supreme Soviet by deputies who supported the building of democracy in Belarus. In parliament,Hryb headed the permanent Commission on National Security,Defense and Combating Crime,within which he lobbied in every possible way for Belarus to join the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),which drew the country into Russia's sphere of influence. In 1993,he was the first in the republic to receive the rank of major general of militia. [4]
In October 2020,Hryb was appointed by opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to a Public Constitutional Commission as its Chairman,tasked with proposing democratic reforms to the Constitution of Belarus. This opposition panel is not recognized by the government of Alexander Lukashenko. [5] [6]
He is a catholic. He is married,has two children (the son is a doctor,the daughter is a lawyer),and a grandson. Hryb mostly communicates in Russian,having studied Belarusian later in life. [4]
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