Uladzimir Mackievič

Uladzimir Uladzimiravič Mackievič (also Uladzimir Matskevich; ; Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich, ; born 14 May 1956, Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Oblast, RSFSR, USSR) is a Belarusian philosopher (methodologist), social and political activist. He was arrested on 4 August 2021 by the Belarusian authorities. Human rights organizations declared him a political prisoner.

Biography His Belarusian parents were forcibly transferred to Siberia where Mackievič was born. His family was soon rehabilitated and returned to Belarus in 1966. He was strongly influenced by Georgy Shchedrovitsky and the Moscow methodological circle.

In the late 1980s, he lived in Latvia and participated in perestroika there. 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. He also founded and led the Humanitarian Technologies Agency .

He was detained on 4 August 2021.

On 4 February 2022, Mackievič declared a hunger strike demanding to change the preventive measure to a recognizance not to leave, complete the investigation and set a date for the trial. He stopped his hunger strike on the eve of 16 February after he was visited by the interrogator.

In June 2022, Mackievič was sentenced to 5 years in a maximum security penal colony. On September 11, 2025, after being pardoned, he was de-facto deported to Lithuania along with fifty other Belarusian political prisoners.

In 2011, he had more than 50 published works.

Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya and Uladzimir Mackievič think Belarus.