Vladimir Makei was the foreign affairs minister of Belarus. He served in the ministry as secretary of several departments: Information and Humanitarian Cooperation, Analysis and Forcast, Office of the Minister, and State Protocol Service.
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He was born in the hamlet of Niekrasevicy. He graduated from the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1980. He served in the Armed Forces of Belarus after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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During the 2020 Belarusian protests, Mekai said at a meeting in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that everyone who disagrees with the state policy should leave the ministry. He also forbade the staff to participate in protest activities.
Two employees who made a picket with blank sheets of paper were fired within a week.
Makei died at the age of 64. His death was announced by the country’s foreign affairs ministry on Saturday, November 26, 2022.
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