Mikóla (Mikalái) Statkévich (Belarusian: Мікола Вiктаравiч Статкевіч, Russian: Никола́й Ви́кторович Статке́вич, born 12 August 1956) is a Belarusian politician and presidential candidate at the 2010 election.Mikola Statkevich was born in Slutsk into a family of school teachers. He is a descendant of the Statkewicz noble family.Statkevich graduated from a military engineering school in Minsk and served in the Soviet antiaircraft defense in the Arctic region.In the early 1990s Statkevich was one of the leaders of the Belarusian Militarymen Association, a pro-independence union of Soviet officers from Belarus. In 1991 Statkevich has left the Communist Party of the USSR as a protest against a brutal Soviet military action against the democratic pro-independence opposition in the Lithuanian SSR. Wikipedia
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