Dzmitry Zhuk

Dzmitry Zhuk (Belarusian: Дзмітрый Жук or Дзьмітры Жук) is a Belarusian journalist and media manager. He is the former head of the press service of president Alexander Lukashenko. Since February 2018 Main Editor of the state-owned newspaper holding Sovetskaya Belorussiya. He was accused of organizing propagandist support to political repressions and placed on the EU sanctions list between 2012 and 2016 when he was Director General of the state-owned news agency BelTA. Son of the Belarusian writer Ales Zhuk[1]

Dzmitry Zhuk
Дзмітрый Жук (Belarusian, official orthography)
Дзьмітры Жук (Belarusian, Taraškievica)
Дмитрий Александрович Жук (Russian)
Main Editor of the Sovetskaya Belorussiya
Assumed office
2018
Director General of the Belarusian Telegraph Agency
In office
2003 – Feb 2, 2018

Biography

D. Zhuk was born in 1970 in Letkaushchyna, Minsk Region.[2]

In 1992 he graduated from the Philology Faculty of the Belarusian State University. In 1992-1993 he worked as a teacher of Belarusian language and literature at a school in Minsk.

Between 1993 and 1997 he worked in the publication and information department of the National Bank of Belarus. In 1997 - 1999 Zhuk worked at the representative office of the Russian news service Interfax in Belarus.

In 1999 D. Zhuk was appointed head of press service of the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.

From 2003 to 2016 he is the CEO of BelTA, the Belarusian state news agency.

From 2018 he is the CEO of Sovetskaya Belorussiya.[3]

Accusations, EU sanctions

In 2011, after the wave of repressions that followed the 2010 presidential election, Dzmitry Zhuk and several other top managers and employees of major state media became subject to an EU travel ban and asset freeze as part of a sanctions list of 208 individuals responsible for political repressions, electoral fraud and propaganda in Belarus.[4] The sanctions were lifted in 2016.

According to the EU Council's decision,[5] Dzmitry Zhuk was "responsible for relaying state propaganda in the media, which has supported and justified the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society on 19 December 2010 using falsified information."

In November 2020, Zhuk was banned from entering Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.[6][7]

References
  1. "Пять фактов о новом главном редакторе «Советской Белоруссии» Дмитрии Жуке" (in Russian). Nasha Niva. Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  2. Дмитрий Жук: Интернет и социальные сети - это лишь технологии - РИА Новости, 06.12.2012
  3. "Дмитрий Жук назначен главным редактором газеты "СБ. Беларусь сегодня"". Белорусское телеграфное агентство (in Russian). 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  4. Поўны спіс 208 беларускіх чыноўнікаў, якім забаронены ўезд у ЕС - Nasha Niva, 11.10.2011
  5. "EUR-Lex - 32012D0642 - EN - EUR-Lex". eur-lex.europa.eu. Retrieved Jan 31, 2023.
  6. "Литва, Латвия и Эстония расширили санкционные списки беларусских чиновников". reform.by (in Russian). 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  7. "The sanctions of the Government of the Republic in view of the situation in Belarus | Välisministeerium". vm.ee. Retrieved Jan 31, 2023.
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