Siarhei Navumchyk

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Iosifavich and the family name is Navumchyk.

Siarhei Iosifavich Navumchyk^[a] (born January 15, 1961) is a Belarusian journalist and politician.

Siarhei Navumchyk
Сяргей Навумчык
Vice President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile
Incumbent
Assumed office 1997
President	Ivonka Survilla
Member of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus
In office 1990–1995
Personal details
Born	(1961-01-15) January 15, 1961 (age 64) Pastavy, Byelorussian SSR, USSR (present-day Belarus)
Political party	Belarusian Popular Front (in the 1990s)
Residence(s)	Prague, Czech Republic
Alma mater	Belarusian State University
Profession	Journalist

Navumchyk was born in Pastavy into a family of a Soviet state serviceman. In 1984 he graduated from the journalism faculty of the Belarusian State University in Minsk.

Navumchyk was member of the parliament of Belarus in 1990 - 1995 and one of the key members of the fraction of the Belarusian Popular Front.^[1]

On April 12, 1995, Navumchyk, along with other members of the parliamentary opposition, held a hunger strike and sitting protest against the controversial referendum initiated by president Alexander Lukashenko.^[1]

On March 26, 1996, Navumchyk fled from Belarus together with BPF party leader Zianon Pazniak.^[1] According to unverified information, the government of Alexander Lukashenko has ordered an arrest of Pazniak and Navumchyk,^[2] who both were prominent opposition figures. Siarhei Navumchyk subsequently got political asylum in the United States and currently works for the Belarusian edition of Radio Liberty.

Since 1997, Siarhei Navumchyk is vice president of the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile.

Notes

1. Belarusian: Сяргей Іосіфавіч Навумчык, romanized: Syarhyey Iosifavich Navumchyk; Russian: Сергей Иосифович Наумчик, romanized: Sergey Iosifovich Naumchik