Experts & Staff

Pavel Slunkin

Visiting Fellow

Areas of expertise

Belarus domestic and foreign policy issues, relations with Russia and the European Union

Languages

Belarusian, Russian, English, Spanish. Swedish and Polish (both basic level)

Biography

Pavel Slunkin is a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in ECFR’s Warsaw office. He works on Belarus-related issues: its domestic and foreign policy, relations with Russia, the European Union, and the United States.

Prior to joining ECFR he worked for the foreign ministry of Belarus. Slunkin participated in Minsk talks on Ukraine preparation and worked as political analyst at the embassy of Belarus in Lithuania.

Slunkin holds a BA (Hons) in International Relations from the Belarusian State University and is an alumnus of several programmes by Clingendael Institute of International Relations (the Netherlands), Wake Forest University (US), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Germany).

Freedom’s gambit. How to save Belarusian prisoners of conscience

Just beyond the borders of the EU, the prisons of Belarus hold thousands of hostages of the Lukashenko regime. There is no magic formula for their release, but the EU can draw on international examples to save the lives of at least some of them

Publications

Articles

Freedom’s gambit. How to save Belarusian prisoners of conscience

Just beyond the borders of the EU, the prisons of Belarus hold thousands of hostages of the Lukashenko regime. There is no magic formula for their release, but the EU can draw on international examples to save the lives of at least some of them

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In the media