What is Vilnis Edvīns Bresis?
[[File:Vilnis Edvins Bresis.jpg|thumb|Vilnis Edvīns Bresis in 2010]] '''Vilnis Edvīns Bresis''' (30 January 1938 in [[Jelgava]] – 25 October 2017) is a [[Latvia]]n politician who was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the [[Latvian SSR]] from 6 October 1988 to 7 May 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gramata21.lv/users/bresis_vilnis/ |title=VILNIS EDVĪNS BRESIS |publisher=gramata21.lv |language=lv |access-date=2010-04-05}}</ref> From 2002 until 2010, Bresis was member of the parliament, elected from the [[Union of Greens and Farmers]]. Bresis died on 25 October 2017 of [[pulmonary edema]] at the age of 79.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.protesti.lv/muziba-devies-bijusais-saeimas-deputats-vilnis-edvins-bresis-pedeja-gaita-izvadis-28-10-2017/|title=Mūžībā devies bijušais Saeimas deputāts Vilnis Edvīns Bresis. Pēdējā gaitā izvadīs 28.10.2017.|first=Igors|last=Lukjanovs|date=25 October 2017|access-date=15 February 2019|archive-date=26 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026163645/http://www.protesti.lv/muziba-devies-bijusais-saeimas-deputats-vilnis-edvins-bresis-pedeja-gaita-izvadis-28-10-2017/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://jauns.lv/raksts/zinas/258306-miris-bijusais-saeimas-deputats-vilnis-edvins-bresis|title=Miris bijušais Saeimas deputāts Vilnis Edvīns Bresis|website=Jauns.lv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://m.rus.delfi.lv/latvija/article.php?id=49376021 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-10-26 |archive-date=2017-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026111406/http://m.rus.delfi.lv/latvija/article.php?id=49376021 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bresis, Vilnis Edvins}} [[Category:1938 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pulmonary edema]] [[Category:Latvian politicians]] {{bio-stub}}