A Belarusian lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus, and Head of the National Anti-Crisis Management. Minister of Culture of Belarus (2009–2012), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Poland (2002–2008) and to the French Republic (2012–2019). He was Director of the Janka Kupała National Academic Theatre in Minsk, losing his post after publicly supporting the election protests. In 2023, a Belarusian court sentenced him in absentia to 18 years in prison. A laureate of the Lech Wałęsa Solidarity Prize (2024).