Pyotr Miklashevich

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Piotr Petrovich Miklashevich
Piotr Miklashevich in 2024
Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Belarus
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 February 2008
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Preceded by	Grigory Vasilevich [be]
Prosecutor General of Belarus [be]
In office 29 November 2004 – 8 February 2008
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Preceded by	Viktor Sheiman
Succeeded by	Grigory Vasilevich [be]
Personal details
Born	(1954-10-18) 18 October 1954 (age 70) Kasuta [be], Vileyka district, Minsk Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Belarusian State University

Piotr Petrovich Miklashevich (born 18 October 1954) is a Belarusian politician, currently serving as Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Belarus.

Piotr Miklashevich was born on October 18, 1954, in the village of Kasuta, Minsk Oblast.^[1]

He served in the military from 1972 to 1982. In 1981, graduated from the Law Faculty of Belarusian State University.^[1]

From 1982, Miklashevich served as a judge in the Buda-Kashalyova district and as a judge in the Gomel Regional Court, which he chaired from 1989 to 1998.^[1]

In 1998–1999 he worked as First Deputy Minister of Justice of Belarus. From 2001 to 2004, he served as the First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of Belarus.^[1]

Between 2004 and 2008, he served as Prosecutor General of Belarus. On 8 February 2008, he was appointed Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Belarus.^[1][2]

Miklashevich was Chair of the Commission behind the 2022 constitutional referendum.^[3][4]

Miklashevich is sanctioned by the United States (Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List),^[5] the Baltic states,^[6][7] the European Union,^[8] the United Kingdom,^[9] Canada,^[10] Switzerland,^[11] Albania, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Norway.^[12]