Dzmitry Shautsou

Dzmitry Shautsou
Дзмітрый Шаўцоў
Дмитрий Шевцов
General Secretary of the Belarus Red Cross
Assumed office
10 June 2021
Preceded byVolha Myčko [be]
Deputy of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
2024
Preceded byGalina Lagunova [be]
ConstituencyMinsk-Paŭnocnaja
In office
18 October 2012 – 6 December 2019
Preceded byHalina Palianskaja [be]
Succeeded bySiarhiej Dzik [be]
ConstituencyMinsk-Kolasaŭskaja
In office
2003 – 17 October 2004
Succeeded byNina Kabiernik [be]
ConstituencyZhlobin
Personal details
Born (1973-11-03) 3 November 1973 (age 51)
Political partyIndependent
Alma mater

Dzmitry Yaŭhienavič Shautsou (Belarusian: Дзмітрый Яўгенавіч Шаўцоў, romanizedDzmitry Yaŭhienavič Šaŭcoŭ; Russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Шевцов, romanizedDmitry 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.