Nikolai Shelyagovich (born 21 July 1956, village Ogdemer, Drahichyn District,

Brest Region Brest Region or Brest Oblast or Brest Voblasts ( be, Брэ́сцкая во́бласць ''(Bresckaja vobłasć)''; russian: Бре́стская о́бласть (''Brestskaya Oblast)'') is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative cent ...

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) is an initiator and proponent of the idea of the establishment of

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n autonomy in Soviet Byelorussia in the 1980s. However, he and his associated received almost no support and the campaign eventually melted away. In particular, writer

Nil Hilevich Nil Symonavich Hilevich ( be, Ніл Сымонавіч Гілевіч, Nil Symonavič Hilevič; russian: Нил Семёнович Гилевич, Nil Semyonovich Gilevich; 30 September 1931 – 29 March 2016) was a Belarusian poet, a professor ...

and some others spoke against him, claiming threat to the national integrity of Belarus, which was labelled as "

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separatism".Дынько А. Найноўшая гісторыя яцвягаў, ARCHE, no. 6 (11), 2000. Quote: ''"Аформілася і супрацьлежная партыя. Лідэры Таварыства Беларускай Мовы Ніл Гілевіч, Яўген Цумараў і Алег Трусаў (вось дзе гняздо беларускага фундаменталізму) узначалілі фронт змагання супраць «яцвяжскага сепаратызму» на старонках «ЛіМу», «Нашага Слова» і ў Вярхоўным Савеце, і «Збудінне» кляйміла іх выступы як «провокашыны лытвынських шовыныстив». Паэт Мікола Федзюкевіч усхвалявана выкрываў, што ягоныя дарагічынскія дзядзькі яцвяжскай мовы не разумеюць і што "асаблівую насцярожанасць выклікалі ў палескіх хлебаробаў наступныя радкі."'' Since the mid-1990s, he has worked for the holding «SHELENG GROUP», from April 2008 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alliance "Russian automation systems". Shelyagovich moved to

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References

External links

Biography on Slounik.org
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(text in Russian) 1956 births Living people People from Drahichyn District Belarusian journalists Belarusian politicians Belarusian businesspeople Belarusian State University alumni {{Belarus-media-stub