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, its relations with Russia, the European Union, and the United States. Prior to joining ECFR, he worked for the foreign ministry of Belarus. Pavel participated in the Minsk talks and worked as a political analyst at the embassy of Belarus in Lithuania. In 2020, he resigned in protest over the rigged elections and violence against the Belarusian people. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Belarusian State University and is an alumnus of several programs at Clingendael Institute of International Relations in the Netherlands, Wake Forest University in the US, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Germany.