Vasil Navumau

Vasil Navumau is a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, where he leads the project “Portrait of exiled Belarusians and the role of Belarus in Russia’s war on Ukraine”. He is also a researcher at the University of Siegen, focusing on civic activism in eastern European countries, particularly Ukraine and Belarus, and its transformation via information and communication technologies.

In addition, Navumau heads the Belarusian civil society initiative RADAR_BY, which fosters discussions and promotes ideas in civic technology and e-democracy, and aims to enhance the capabilities of civil society in Belarus through digital tools. Due to his activities, he has been targeted by the Belarusian regime and was sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison.

Navumau previously held research positions at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Linköping University, the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu, the Institute for European Politics, the Institute of Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, and the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen.