Harold Hubert Russia (June 26, 1938) is a Surinamese former minister and trade union director.
He was a teacher and later chairman of the Christian Educators Bond 'Brotherhood'. He has also been a secretary of the KRA group. Beginning in 1968, he was elected president of the FOLS Educational Federation of Educators and Teachers in Suriname, a year later, who was involved in the educational strike that struck the Pengel government a year later. At the next election on October 24, 1969, he was in the constituency of Paramaribo immediately after Eddy Bruma on the candidate list of the Nationalist Republic Party (PNR). The PNR took one seat there so that only Bruma was elected. FOLS became a member of the CLO, which was established in 1971, whose president was Russia from 1971 to 1980. The CLO was related to the PNR during that period.
In the 1973 elections, Russia was elected as member of the states of Surinam on behalf of the PNR, which was then part of the National Party Combination (NPK). During that period, when he was both a member of the state and a trade union leader, he made strong efforts to become independent of Suriname in the near future at the end of 1975. At the 1977 elections, the PNR did not make any part of the NPK. As the PNR did not enter any seat at that election, he did not return to parliament.
After the Sergeant coup of 1980, Russia became Minister of Education in first, the Chin Sen Sen Cabinet and later the Neijhorst Cabinet. Shortly after the December killings of 1982, the entire cabinet of Neijhorst stepped up. After his active career in politics, he has been engaged many times as a mediator in conflicts between trade unions and the government.
His son Gregory Russia was in the third cabinet of Venetian (2005-2010) Surinamese Minister of Natural Resources.
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