Alyaksandr Uladzimiravich Kanyuk (, ) (born 1960) is a
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
ian jurist and statesman, former Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus (2011–2020).
Kanyuk graduated from the
Belarusian State University
The Belarusian State University (BSU) (, ; ) is a university in Minsk, Belarus. It was founded on October 30, 1921. The university was ranked 387th in the world in the 2023 QS World University Rankings.
History 1919–1949
On February 25, 1919, ...
in 1982. He was a military judge for a long time, and a
Supreme Court of Belarus
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus is the highest-tier court inside of Belarus and acts as the final "court of review." Its general tasks include the oversight of lower-tier courts and it can render justice in areas of general civil an ...
judge since 2009 before becoming the Prosecutor General.
After the
disputed Belarusian presidential elections of 2020 he was
sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus by the European Union.
40 беларускіх чыноўнікаў, якія трапілі пад санкцыі Эўразьвязу. СЬПІС
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In 2020 he was appointed ambassador to Armenia.[Конюк и Равков отправлены послами в Армению и Азербайджан]
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References
1960 births
Living people
Belarusian jurists
Belarusian civil servants
Ambassadors of Belarus to Armenia
Belarusian State University alumni
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