Aleh Śližewski

Oleg Leonidovich Slizhevsky (; born 16 August 1972) is a Belarusian politician who served as minister of justice from 2011 to 2021. In 2007, he was elected member of the Central Election Commission.

Early life and education Oleg Slizhevsky was born in Grodno on 16 August 1972.

In 1999, he obtained a master's degree in law from the University of Grodno. In 2005, he finished a graduate program at the Belarusian State University without defending a thesis. In 2012, he graduated from the Academy of Public Administration.

In 2002, Slizhevsky was promoted to the Ministry of Justice, where he mainly oversaw civil society organizations, rising to the position of the head of that department. In 2010, he was appointed as the head of the Labor Arbitration Tribunal at the ministry,

Slizhevsky was appointed Minister of Justice on 13 December 2011. The oppositional newspaper Nasha Niva claimed that he lost his position due to the slow revocation of licenses of Belarusian lawyers. Later, he was appointed as the head of the legal department for the Union State government apparatus.

Personal life Slizhevsky is married; his wife works as an adviser to the chairman of the Supreme Court of Belarus.

Awards Medal "For Labor Merits" (Belarus, 2019) Honorary Diploma of the Council of Ministers (Belarus, 2021)