Yauheni Preiherman

[2] In 2006-2007 he studied at the Higher People's School Litorina in Karlskrona (Sweden), in 2010 he received a master's degree in European Politics (and a special Jean Monnet prize for the best overall performance on the course) from the University of Sussex.

As a student, Yauheni Preiherman organised a group called the Liberal Club (Russian: Либеральный клуб), which aimed at facilitating an inclusive political debate in Belarusian society and implemented research projects, mainly in the economic field.

[13] In 2015, the Liberal Club became the basis for the Minsk Dialogue Track-2 Initiative, which offered a platform for international experts to address the crisis in/around Ukraine and its broader implications for regional security in Eastern Europe.

The mission of the Minsk Dialogue is to offer an open and geopolitically unbiased platform for research and discussion on international affairs and security in Eastern Europe.

[17] According to the OSCE's former Secretary General Thomas Greminger, "the Minsk Dialogue Forum provides an excellent and most timely platform for informal discussion of the many complex challenges that confront us today".