Andrei Sannikov
Politician, Person or entity appearing in film
1954 –
Who is Andrei Sannikov?
Andrei Olegovich Sannikov is a Belarusian politician and activist. In the early 1990s, he headed the Belarusian delegation on Nuclear and Conventional Weapons Armament Negotiations, also serving as the Belarusian diplomat to Switzerland. From 1995 to 1996, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus, resigning as a form of political protest. He co-founded the civil action Charter 97, and was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize in 2005.
Sannikov was a candidate at the 2010 presidential election in Belarus, and had the second highest percentage of the popular votes after incumbent Alexander Lukashenko. He was incarcerated in a Minsk KGB facility for peacefully protesting at a demonstration after the elections, and faced up to a 15-year imprisonment. Amnesty International labeled him a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release on the grounds that he may be facing torture and medical neglect while in custody. On 14 May 2011, he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on charges of organizing mass disturbances.
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- Born
- Mar 8, 1954
Minsk - Also known as
- Andrei Olegovich Sannikov
- Andrei Sannikau
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Belarus
- Profession
- Education
- Minsk State Linguistic University
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on July 23, 2013
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