18 Facts About Vitali Silitski

Vitali Silitski was a Belarusian political scientist, analyst, the first director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies.

Vitali Silitski got his PhD in political science from the Rutgers University.

Vitali Silitski's mother is a teacher in a kindergarten; his father and brother are of working specialties.

Vitali Silitski got a diploma with honours in Sociology awarded in June 1994.

Vitali Silitski was forced to quit by administration for publicly criticising the government of Alexander Lukashenko.

In October 2004-July 2005 Vitali Silitski was awarded a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in the National Endowment for Democracy at Washington DC, United States.

When Vitali Silitski discovered he had kidney cancer in July 2010, his friends and colleagues supported him.

Vitali Silitski had spent much time in a hospital in Belgium, but the cancer was progressing and he returned to Belarus, where he spent his last days with his friends and family.

Vitali Silitski died on 11 June 2011, at the age of 38, after living with cancer for nearly a year.

Preempting authoritarianism and its development into Authoritarian international are presented in Vitali Silitski working paper Contagion Deterred: Preemptive Authoritarianism in the Former Soviet Union, 2006, for Center on Democracy, Development, and The Rule of Law at Stanford University.

Many in the 1990s and the early 2000s wrote about democratic diffusion, but Vitali Silitski started a discussion about counter-diffusion.

Vitali Silitski attracted and united around himself a new generation of experts.

Malerius notes that Vitali Silitski consulted politicians when asked, but he was not a political technologist and didn't want to be so.

Vitali Silitski wished to see it a democratic and European state, where the Belarusian language and the national culture are respected.

Vitali Silitski went there being already sick and brutal dispersal of participants had an adverse effect on him.

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On February 29,2012, the book of Vitali Silitski Postponed Freedom was published post-mortem opening series Library of Belarusian Collegiums.

Vitali Silitski authored over 100 publications on the issues of democratization and authoritarianism in the former USSR, electoral revolutions and pre-emptive authoritarianism, politics of economic reforms, EU relations with Belarus, Belarus-Russia integration, etc.