Aleksei Ovchinnikov

Aleksei is a Belarusian environmental journalist and activist. He has MAs in philosophy and sociology (urban studies) from European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania.  Aleksei is an author and co-editor of Green Belarus Belarusian independent environmental media and author and co-editor of Eco.Rayon Ukrainian regional environmental media. In September 2021 he left Belarus for political reasons, first living in Ukraine and now in Georgia. Aleksei has continued his environmental activities in exile, organizing local environmental meetings and workshops.

Articles at UWEC:

1. Green Reconstruction of Ukraine
2. Belarus eliminates independent environmental organizations and exits the Aarhus Convention: an interview with Ecodom’s Marina Dubina
3. Russia prosecutes activist for citing IAEA report
4. Resistance is not useless: How Russian environmental activism persists in wartime