Miroslav Kusý (1 December 1931 – 13 February 2019) was a Slovak political scientist and politician. Described as a "dissident" of Czechoslovakia's communist regime, [1] he was given an eight-month suspended sentence in November 1989 for an anti-government protest. [2] After the Velvet Revolution, Kusý was appointed as chairman of the Federal Press and Information Office of Czechoslovakia. [3]
After politics, Kusý became a professor in political science. [4]
He died on 13 February 2019, at age of 87 from heart failure. [5]