Valērijs Agešins

Valērijs Agešins
Valērijs Agešins
Deputy of the Saeima
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2002
Personal details
Born	23 June 1972 (age 51); Liepāja, Latvian SSR
Political party	Harmony
Alma mater	Baltic Russian Institute; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University; University of Latvia

Valērijs Agešins (born June 23, 1972 in Liepāja) is a Latvian politician and lawyer. He is a member of Harmony and a deputy of the Saeima, elected to represent the Kurzeme electoral district. He began his current term in parliament on November 4, 2014.

From 1994-1998 he studied at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, graduating in history. He obtained a master's degree in pedagogy, and in 2002, he graduated from the Baltic Russian Institute as a lawyer.^[1] He is not however, a qualified attorney.

From 1997-1998 he worked in a teacher training summer camp and from 1995-1999 as a law and political science lecturer at the Institute of Social Technologies.^[1] From 1998-2002 he was a history teacher at Liepāja High School where he was a member of the secondary school teachers' union committee. In 2002 he became a member of the Liepāja City Public Reconciliation Commission, becoming Vice-President.^[1] Later in 2002 he was elected to the Saeima, and was re-elected again in 2006. His area of specialization is legal issues, the Parliamentary Justice Committee and the Committee on European Affairs.^[1]

He speaks three languages, Russian, Latvian, English and enjoys football, swimming, volleyball and basketball.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Valērijs Agešins". Harmony Centre. Archived from the original on May 18, 2007. Retrieved March 12, 2009.

[Sask-1] "Valērijs Agešins". Harmony Centre. Archived from the original on May 18, 2007. Retrieved March 12, 2009.

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