Dmitry Pinevich

Dmitry Leonidovich Pinevich (Belarusian: Дзмітрый Леанідавіч Піневіч; born 17 October 1967) is a Belarusian doctor and politician. He served as the Minister of Health of the Republic of Belarus from 2020 to 2024. He is currently the Ambassador of Belarus to Azerbaijan.

Born in Ilya to a family of teachers, Pinevich graduated from S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy in 1990. Afterward, he was the doctor for a military unit in the Ukrainian SSR, but returned to Belarus in 1992 after the collapse of the USSR. For the next decade, he took on a variety of roles as a physician and surgeon for polyclinics and hospitals in Minsk before form 2002 to 2011, becoming the Chairman of the Health Committee of the Minsk City Executive Committee. From 2011 to 2020, he was the First Deputy Minister of Health, before succeeding Vladimir Karanik as acting minister in August 2020, then as the official minister in November. His time as minister was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, where in response he briefly implemented masking and social distancing along with mass vaccinations of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine before this was repealed on the orders of Alexander Lukashenko. He also attempted to solve the outflow of trained doctors and the high medicine prices, but faced criticism for underreporting the mortality rate of COVID-19 in Belarus. In 2024 he was dismissed, and a year later in January 2025 was announced as the Ambassador to Azerbaijan.