Uladzimir Prakopavich Nyaklyayew (Belarusian: Уладзі́мір Прако́павіч Някля́еў, Łacinka: Uładzimir Prakopavič Niaklajeŭ; Russian: Владимир Прокофьевич Некляев, romanized: Vladimir Prokofyevich Neklyayev; born 11 July 1946) is a Belarusian poet and writer, and a former head of the public campaign Tell the Truth!

He was a candidate for 19 December 2010 elections in Belarus,[1][2] and, according to Amnesty International, was placed under house arrest for his role in post-election protests.

[4] Vladimir Nyaklyayew spent his childhood in a small place called Kreva where he finished his first school year.

Having declared in public about his breakup with the official powers, Vladimir Nyaklyayew became the first representative of Belarusian culture who had left Belarus under political reasons.

[9] His first poems Nyaklyayew started writing in Russian, being the member of literature association in the newspaper "Znamya Yunosti".

The incitement to change the profession was the trip to Far East and North, after which, coming back home, he decided to enter the Department of Philology.

[citation needed] In 1998–2001 Niaklajeŭ chairman of the Union of Belarusian Writers (preceded by Vasil Zujonak, succeeded by Volha Ipatava.

[5] In 2005, V. Niaklajeŭ was elected as the head of Belarusian PEN Center, and on 10 April, he voluntarily left that position.

[28][29][30] On 18 November 2010 Niaklajeŭ had been officially registered as a candidate for presidency to run in the 2010 Belarusian presidential election.

[1] On the day of the presidential elections on 19 December 2010 Niaklajeŭ was seriously beaten by unidentified men in black when he was on his way to an opposition protest rally in Minsk,[31] sustained a head injury during this beating and was abducted from intensive care by the Belarusian authorities.

[7] The second wife of Uładzimier Volha used to work in the technical department of the magazine "Krynica" at the time, when Niaklajeŭ was the chief editor.