Dzmitry Zhuk

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

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 [be][1]

  1. ^ "Пять фактов о новом главном редакторе «Советской Белоруссии» Дмитрии Жуке". Nasha Niva (in Russian). 6 February 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-05-29.