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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).
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In the media
Pavel Slunkin on how Europe can support pro-democracy Belarusians
Pavel Slunkin and Gabriele Valodskaitė argue why Europe should support emigrants from Belarus
Belarus isn’t the only dictatorial regime. People might ask why Belarusians, and not everyone else.
Pavel Slunkin comments on the possibility of alternative passports for Belarusian citizens in exile
Pavel Slunkin and Gabrielė Valodskaitė on the EU’s support to Belarusian exiles
The interests of the Belarusian regime don’t have to coincide 100 percent with what Moscow wants, and sometimes one just wants to talk
Pavel Slunkin explains Ukraine’s efforts to keep Belarus out of the war