Valery Kalinovsky is the Minsk correspondent for RFE/RL’s Ukraine Service, Radio Svoboda, and, until recently, was a freelance correspondent for RFE/RL’s Belarus Service. Prior to joining RFE/RL in Minsk, Valery headed the Political Section for the Belarusian daily newspaper, ‘Zvyazda,’ based in Minsk. Before that, he worked as the Minsk correspondent for the Kiev daily, ‘Kievskije Vedomosty,’ and as a correspondent for the Minsk-based paper, ‘Chyrvonaja Zmena.’
BA in Journalism, Belarus State University, Minsk (1992); Postgraduate study in ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1998).