Education: Belarusian Linguistic University, Translation Department. Worked as translator/interpreter for various organizations and projects, including the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce, the Ministry of Geology of the USSR (for Petrobangla Oil and Gas Development Corporation, Bangladesh), ENKA Insaat ve Sanayi, a Turkish construction company, in Turkey and Russia, TACIS projects, the UNDP, World Bank offices in Belarus, the UKT International Conference Interpreters (Turkey), the UK High Court proceedings translation project, etc.