Dzmitry Shautsou | |
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Дзмітрый Шаўцоў Дмитрий Шевцов | |
General Secretary of the Belarus Red Cross | |
Assumed office 10 June 2021 | |
Preceded by | Volha Myčko |
Deputy of the House of Representatives | |
Assumed office 2024 | |
Preceded by | Galina Lagunova |
Constituency | Minsk-Paŭnocnaja |
In office 18 October 2012 – 6 December 2019 | |
Preceded by | Halina Palianskaja |
Succeeded by | Siarhiej Dzik |
Constituency | Minsk-Kolasaŭskaja |
In office 2003 – 17 October 2004 | |
Succeeded by | Nina Kabiernik |
Constituency | Zhlobin |
Personal details | |
Born | 3 November 1973 |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | |
Dzmitry Yaŭhienavič Shautsou (Belarusian: Дзмітрый Яўгенавіч Шаўцоў, romanized: Dzmitry Yaŭhienavič Šaŭcoŭ; Russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Шевцов, romanized: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Shevtsov; born 3 November 1973) is a Belarusian physician and politician currently serving as head of the Belarus Red Cross since 10 June 2021. He is currently served as a deputy of the House of Representatives since 2024, and had been a deputy before, most recently from 2012 to 2019. Shautsou has acquired controversy as head of the Belarus Red Cross for statements in support of homophobia, Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the stationing of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus, for which the group was suspended from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on 1 December 2023.