# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zianon-pazniak
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:47:17.552Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zianon-pazniak"
name: "Zianon Paźniak"
slug: "zianon-pazniak"
description: "Zianon Stanislavavich Pazniak is a Belarusian nationalist politician, archaeologist, and pro-democracy activist. He was a founding figure of the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) and served as the chairman of its parliamentary fraction in the Supreme Council of Belarus from 1990 to 1995. He rose to prominence in politics in 1988 after revealing the NKVD's mass executions during the Great Purge in Kurapaty, which galvanized the Belarusian independence movement and anti-Soviet sentiment. He was a candidate in the 1994 election, the first presidential election of Belarus following its independence, in which Pazniak placed fourth. Since then, he has remained a vocal critic of President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian influence in Belarus, and after the BPF's split in 1999 became Chairman of the Conservative Christian Party – BPF."
tagline: "Belarusian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2008.06.16._Zianon_Pazniak_Fot_Mariusz_Kubik_01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-04-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "ivan.viktarovic.5"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump