He was accused of organizing propagandist support to political repressions and placed on the EU sanctions list between 2012 and 2016 when he was Director General of the state-owned news agency BelTA.
In 1997 - 1999 Zhuk worked at the representative office of the Russian news service Interfax in Belarus.
In 1999 D. Zhuk was appointed head of press service of the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.
[4] In 2011, after the wave of repressions that followed the 2010 presidential election, Dzmitry Zhuk and several other top managers and employees of major state media became subject to an EU travel ban and asset freeze as part of a sanctions list of 208 individuals responsible for political repressions, electoral fraud and propaganda in Belarus.
According to the EU Council's decision,[6] Dzmitry Zhuk was "responsible for relaying state propaganda in the media, which has supported and justified the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society on 19 December 2010 using falsified information."