Uladzimir Uladzimiravič Mackievič (also Uladzimir Matskevich; be, Уладзімір Уладзіміравіч Мацкевіч; Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich, russian: Владимир Владимирович Мацкевич; born 14 May 1956,

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) is a Belarusian philosopher (

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), social and political activist. He was arrested on 4 August 2021 by the Belarusian authorities. Human rights organizations declared him a political prisoner.Release political prisoners Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya and Uladzimir Matskevich!
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Biography

His Belarusian parents were forcibly transferred to

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where Mackievič was born.Персона. Владимир Мацкевич: страна на военном положении
/ref> His family was soon rehabilitated and returned to Belarus in 1966. He graduated from the

Leningrad State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

with a degree in psychology.Faces of EuroBelarus
/ref> He was strongly influenced by

Georgy Shchedrovitsky Georgy Petrovich Shchedrovitsky (russian: Георгий Петрович Щедровицкий) (23 February 1929 – 3 February 1994) was a Russian philosopher and methodologist, public and cultural figure. The creator of the system-thinking me ...

and the Moscow methodological circle. In the late 1980s, he lived in

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and participated in

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there. In 1994, he returned to Belarus. In 1990s, Mackievič participated in different electoral campaigns as a candidate and as a political technologist. He also consulted 3 parties that merged into the

United Civic Party The United Civic Party (UCP; be, Аб'яднаная грамадзянская партыя; АГП, Abjadnanaja hramadzianskaja partyja; AHP; russian: Объединённая гражданская партия; ОГП, Obyedinonnaya grazhdans ...

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was also formed with his participation. Mackievič is a longtime critic of

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (as transliterated from Russian language, Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian language, Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лука� ...

, in 2011 he characterized the political situation as a "personalist dictatorship that established martial law". He supported the

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after

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and called Lukashenko the "illegitimate president". In February 2021, Mackievič welcomed the appearance of the recently published strategy of the joint opposition but criticized much of its content. In 1994 and 1996, Mackievič participated in the development of two projects of educational reform by request of the Ministry of education of Belarus, but these projects weren't implemented. In 2007, Mackievič participated in the creation of NGO which is a member of the

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Civil Society Forum.В Минске задержаны философ Мацкевич и еще двое общественных деятелей
/ref> He also founded and led the Humanitarian Technologies Agency (russian: Агентство гуманитарных технологий). Mackievič together with a sociologist Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya created the "Flying university" (russian: Летучий университет) which focused on the development of critical thinking.Свобода и сомнения. Как в Минске работает университет, не похожий на другие
/ref> He was detained on 4 August 2021. Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya and several other activists related to him were detained on the same day. On 6 August, 8 Belarusian human rights organizations declared him a political prisoner in a joint statement. He was charged with "organizing of actions that grossly violate public order" under article 342 of the Criminal Code of Belarus. On 4 February 2022, Mackievič declared a hunger strike demanding to change the preventive measure to a

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not to leave, complete the investigation and set a date for the trial. He also threatened to start a dry hunger strike (refusal to take food and water) on February 15. He stopped his hunger strike on the eve of 16 February after he was visited by the interrogator. In 2011, he had more than 50 published works. Think belarus

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External links

Faces of EuroBelarus

''eurobelarus.info''
Library of EuroBelarus that includes several works written by Matskevich

"Uladimir Matskevich"
/ Aliaksandr Tamkovich (2014), pp.267-269 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mackievič, Uladzimir Living people Belarusian politicians Belarusian political scientists Belarusian philosophers Belarusian educators 1956 births People from Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Oblast Political prisoners according to Viasna Human Rights Centre

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