Dzmitry Us

Businessman. He heads Trivium company. Now the firm renders utility services to tenants of premises in administrative buildings.

Born June 10, 1971 in Minsk.

He graduated from the University of Hrodna. He worked as a factory worker at the Integral factory in Minsk, and later – in the construction sector. Since 1992, he has been the director of the Trivium publishing house. He was fond of geography and was the first businessman in Belarus, who began to publish road maps. His firm also produces globes, atlases, maps of the sky.

He was a deputy of the Minsk City Council (1999-2003), but failed to get registered at the elections in 2003 and 2007. He was assistant to Heorgi Tarazevich (Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, since the mid-1990s – friend of the Central Committee of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party), that was when he met with Mikola Statkevich. In 2010 he participated in the local elections, gaining, according to the CEC, 33% of votes.

He was one of the presidential candidates in the presidential elections of December 2010. In order to save money, he campaigned with Statkevich (together they organized meetings, printed leaflets).

He was detained in Minsk on the night of 19 to 20 December, right after the mass protests. He was held in the KGB detention center. On December 20, he was released with travel restrictions. He was offered to defame Mikola Statkevich, and to go abroad. Mr Us refused. In 2011, he was convicted of organizing mass riots and sentenced to 5.5 years in penal colony. Six months later, he was pardoned, although, according to Us, he had never turned to Alyaksandr Lukashenka with such a request.

He wrote two open letters to Vladimir Putin. In the first one (2010) he asked for help to release political prisoners in Belarus, in the second one (2012) he warned Putin that Alyaksandr Lukashenka would  interfere in the creation of the Customs Union, as it was not in his interests. Mr Us is a supporter of the Customs and the Eurasian Union.

In 2013 he announced an intention to create the first Business Party, after that – the Labor Party.

Earlier, he experienced clinical death after a poorly made operation. In 2008 in the same hospital doctors were unable to save his first wife. In 2010, he remarried. His wife Yauheniya worked in his publishing house. He has two sons – from the first and second marriage, he is rearing a daughter from his first marriage. In 2014, his son Ivan said he wanted to create in Minsk an Antimaidan and unite supporters of the Russian world in Belarus. Us promised that he would talk to his son and there would be no Congress.