Tatsiana Karatkevich

Tatsyana Mikalayewna Karatkyevich (; ; born 8 March 1977) is a Belarusian politician and a member of civic campaign Tell the Truth. Karatkyevich has been of "Tell the Truth" since 2010 and alongside other initiative groups who are dissatisfied with current government plans.

In 2020, Tatsyana Karatkyevich headed the initiative group to nominate the co-chair of Tell the Truth Andrey Dmitriyeu as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election. In 2024, Karatkyevich received 15 days of administrative arrest under a political article for a “prohibited” photograph on her social networks.

Early and personal life Karatkyevich was born on 8 March 1977 in Minsk, then part of the Byelorussian SSR. She graduated from the Maksim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University, where afterwards she worked as a teacher in psychology for 11 years as well as the Belarusian State University. For 3 years she headed the department of rehabilitation at the Territorial Center for Social Services in Minsk afterwards, and then for 2 years she was the director of the institution "Family Playground". before leaving in the party in 2016. She has since then been described as a friend of the BSDP.

She was married to a car mechanic for ambulances and has a son named Elisey. She divorced her husband in 2016, which she attributed to them no longer liking the same things and stress from her personal political life.