senior analyst in the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS, Vilnius). An MA in political science, he is currently writing his doctoral thesis on the relations between Belarus and NATO. Until 2009 he lectured in the European Humanistic University in Vilnius, but after the conflict with the management, lost the possibility of lecturing there. Co-founder of the “Palitichnaya Sfera”  - Political Research Institute.