Biography
Nekrasovsky rows "His god of anger and sorrows sent him // Kings of the Earth remind of Christ", addressed to Nikolai Chernyshevsky, you can describe the presidential candidate of Belarus, the Christian democrat of Pavel Severinz. One of the most consistent fighters with Alexander Lukashenko regime for more than five years of life spent in prisons and colonies. In 2006 and 2011, the International Amnesty organization recognized Paul by a prisoner of conscience.Childhood and youth
The leader of the Belarusian Christian Democrats Party (BCD) was born in the penultimate day of 1976 in the city of Orsha Vitebsk region. Parents are a journalist Konstantin and Tatiana teacher - gave life to two more children, daughters Anna and Darius.
The critics of the oppositionist often reveal the rumor that by nationality Severinets, giving interviews and writing books only in Belarusian language, not quite Belarus. The appearance for suspicions was given father Paul, regularly published in the international Jewish magazine "Mishpoch".
In the article about the Bes-Agaron School in Pinsk, Konstantin Severinets wrote:
"We guessed Belarusians for a long time - each of us is at least a little Jew."From nine years old Paul lived in Vitebsk. School No. 25 with an architectural and artistic bias of the cultural capital of Belarus, the young man graduated with a gold medal a month before the first election of Alexander Lukashenko by the President of the Republic. After 6 years, Severinets-Jr. completed training at the geological department of the Geographical Faculty of the Belarusian State University. In the student years, Paul, who received a profession of engineer-geologist, worked as a journalist in state and independent publications.
Personal life
In the last May Day of 1998, being in conclusion, the opposition was adopted by Christ since then, all the speeches and articles of Paul are permeated with religious rhetoric. According to Severinz, the Belarusian National Idea is the Savior, talking in Belarusian. According to the opposition program, only relying on the church, in Belarus you can build a democratic society.The religious worldview of the author was reflected in the Roman of Paul "Belarusalim. Dawn". The main character of the work is called the same as the wife of Severinz, - Olga. With the future wife, he met in 2009. In January 2014, Paul and Olga married the church.
In March 2018, Severintsev had a son whom the parents were named Frantishek. Before the appearance of a child Olga, who graduated from Philfak BSU, taught Polish in the center of Slavic cultures.
Among the wives of Belarusian oppositionists are generally a lot of teaching. The wife of the leader of the United Civic Party Anatoly Lebedko Svetlana is a school teacher of English. The wife of the head of the Belarusian Social Democrats Nikolai Statkevich Marina Adamovich was taught by epidemiology in the Medical Institute.
Now Olga Severinets is engaged in the education of the Son. Also, a woman develops a Christian online store owned by a family.
It is curious that the only point for which the leader of Christian Democrats of Belarus and Alexander Lukashenko look equally, is a gay marriage. The President said it is better to be a dictator than a homosexual. Paul negatively refers to unconventional forms of personal life, emphasizing that the pederasty is condemned in the Bible and religion does not allow him to be tolerant to gays, lesbians, transsexuals and feminists.
The discrepancy in the views on homosexuality was the cause of the exception in 2019 by Severinz from the Belarusian Pen-Center. The man was a member of the organization since 2007, but since 2014 did not pay membership fees.
Career and politics
In 1995, Paul joined the Belarusian Folk Front (BNF), and after 2 years he headed the Minsk youth fraction of the organization. In 1999-2003 he was Deputy Chairman of the BNF Party. At the same years, the Belarusian "Young Front" was headed.
From 2007, Severinets worked on the revival of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, which existed in the 20th and 30s of the 20th century. The organization, not registered by the Ministry of Justice of Belarus, advocates to give the Belarusian language the status of the sole state in the republic and for the union of Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants on the basis of conservative and governmental values.
Paul was the editor of both party programs (2009 and 2015). As the co-chair of the Bhd Severinets met with George Bush - the younger and Condolysis of Rice. The promotion of Christian ideas contributed to books and musical albums created by opposition.
For political activity, a man paid for years in prison. To the longest periods in their biography, Paul was sentenced to 2005 and 2010.
Pavel Severinets now
In December 2019, the Belarusian newspaper "Our Niva" called Paul and Anna Severinets of the people of the year. On the 2020th, the publication of the 2nd part of the Roman "Belarusalim" was scheduled, called the "Heart of Light".
In March 2020, the head of Christian Democrats confirmed the news on the signing of them to appeal to the president about banning in Belarus gay parades. In the same month, Paul described as a crime of the refusal of the Government of Lukashenko to join quarantine measures due to a coronavirus infection pandemic and called the danger of COVID-19 by one of the two exit motifs from the opposition primaries in which he was leading. The second reason is the activity of "vertical workers", trying to impose Igor Gubarevich as the only opposition candidate.
In the 2020 elections, Severinets joined the slogans of the opposition "away, cockroach!" and "Country for Life." According to Paul, the independence of Belarus is more important for the republic than liberalization, and it is necessary to break all the ball agreements with Russia, prepare to pay the full price for gas and protect the country from repeating the Crimean or Donbass scenarios.
From June 7, 2020, Severinets again is in conclusion. The oppositionist was detained during single picketing and sentenced to 75 days of arrest. Paul is contained in the SIZO, while it is regularly transferred to the Cake, where there is no cold water. Politics have deprived of personal belongings, including a toothbrush.
In protest against the conclusion and conditions of detention, Paul opened Vienna. News on the continuation of the struggle between Severinz and the court over it are published on the Belarusian and Russian Yutiub-Channels.