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May 27, 1957 Elbląg, Warmian Masurian Voivodeship, Poland 66 years old
Belarusian-Polish historian
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About Oleg Atyszonek
- Oleg Latyszonek (Belarusian: ???? ?????????, Aleh Latyshonak) (born May 27, 1957 in Elblag) is a historian from Bialystok, Poland, of Belarusian ancestry.
- His interests and his Ph.D.
- are the research of early cultural identity of Belarusians and the building of the Belarusian nation.
- He is with the Department of Belarusian Culture, University of Bialystok. Oleg Latyszonek was involved with the "Solidarity" political movement in 1980s and was imprisoned for assistance in publishing of illegal bulletins.
- In post-Communist Poland, Latyszonek has been involved in setting up the Belarusian minority movement, the Association of Belarusians in Poland.
- He is one of the founders of the Belarusian Historical Society, Poland.Latyszonek is the driving force of the "Radio Racja" ("Radio Reason") radio station that broadcasts from Bialystok in Belarusian language targeting the Belarusians in both in Poland and Belarus, as well as the Polish minority in Belarus.In 2008 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
