Education, advanced training
In 2024, advanced training took place within the framework of the joint program of the RIVSH State University and Pskov State University "Modern Youth Policy in Russia and the Republic of Belarus".
In 2024, advanced training took place at MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia under the program "Integration processes in the EAEU and CIS space: priorities and prospects".
In 2023, advanced training was held at the RIVSH State Technical University under the program "Language as a means of intercultural communication and multicultural education of a modern specialist."
In 2019, advanced training took place at MGLU (Moscow) under the program "New reality and modern communication technologies".
In 2017, he graduated from postgraduate studies at the Department of Philosophy and Methodology of University Education of RIVSH, specialty 23.00.01 "Political Theory and Philosophy, History and Methodology of Political Science". Awarded the scientific qualification "Researcher" in the field of political science.
In 2014, he graduated from the Master's degree at the Political Science Department of the Law Faculty of BSU, specializing in "Politics". The degree "Master of Political Science" was awarded.
In 2013, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the "BIP - Institute of Law", specialty "Law". Awarded the qualification "Lawyer".
Labor activity
2023 – to the present – senior lecturer of the Department of Eurasian Studies, Faculty of International Relations, BSU.
Taught disciplines: "Belarus in the system of world economic relations", "International economic integration".
2021 – 2024 – leading project management specialist of the Center for International Studies, Faculty of International Relations, BSU.
2018 – 2021 – senior lecturer of the Department of Philosophy and Political Science of the Faculty of International Law of the private educational establishment "BIP - Institute of Law".
Taught disciplines: "Political parties and interest groups", "Civil society", "Organization of election campaigns", "Political communications", "Conflictology", "Theory of political decision-making", "Legal rhetoric", "Public diplomacy".
2018 – 2018 – lawyer of SvetomirBai LLC.
2018 – 2024 – chairman of the Council (Board) of the scientific and cultural institution "Eurasian Partnership" (on a public basis).
2016 – 2018 – Deputy Chairman of the Council (Board) of the scientific and cultural institution "Eurasian Partnership" (on a public basis).
Key Achievements
Organizer of 89 scientific, practical, and socio-political events. In particular, he organized and conducted 20 events of the "Team of the Future" Leadership Platform. In 2023, the "Team of the Future" Leadership Platform was included in the plan of events for the "Year of Peace and Creation" (in accordance with Resolution No. 93 of the Council of Ministers of February 1, 2023).
As part of these events, he spoke at the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk City Hall, BSU, BSPU, BSUFL, BSUIR, STV, Belteleradiocompany, the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Belarus, and the CIS Executive Committee.
He is the author of 30 scientific papers, including 8 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, and 22 publications in collections of scientific papers, conference materials, and abstracts. He has published analytical articles on the portals Eurasia.Expert, Conceptual.rf, and the Center for Strategic Assessments and Forecasts.
Example of a research article:
The Integration of the EAEU, SCO, and BRICS in the Context of the Changing Architecture of International Relations // A Collection of Articles by Finalists of the 2024 A.A. Gromyko CIS Young International Relations Competition / Edited by A.A. Gromyko, N.M. Mezhevich, A.A. Prikhodko, and M.M. Borodenko. Moscow: Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, A.A. Gromyko Associated Foreign Policy Research Institute – 2024. pp. 30-35.
https://gromyko.ru/collection_2024
Author of analytical videos on international relations. During his tenure at the Center for International Studies at the Faculty of International Relations of BSU, he produced 14 videos.
Video example:
What future awaits the EAEU? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wykz8Jzo6Vc
In 2025, he won the Andrei Gromyko CIS Young International Relations Competition (first place in the main category). The project was organized by the Foreign Policy Studies Association, the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 2025, he was included in the "Top 30 Young Leaders of the Eurasian Space" rating. The rating was compiled by the Sarapshy Expert Platform under the Almaty City Youth Policy Department (Republic of Kazakhstan). The head of the Expert Platform is Enlik Nurlanovna Ormakhanova, PhD, member of the Council of Young Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The ranking was published on EURASIA24:
https://eurasia24.media/eksklyuziv/molodye-lidery-evrazijskogo-prostranstva/
In 2025, he received a letter of thanks from Anton Anatolyevich Kobyakov, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, for his participation in the XXVIII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
In 2025, he received a letter of thanks from the Chairman of the Youth Council of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus "For his personal contribution to the implementation of the Youth Council of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus project – the 'Team of the Future' Leadership Platform – and his support of the youth parliamentary movement of the Republic of Belarus."
In 2024, he organized the large-scale BSUIR project "TechWeek 2024." As part of the project, 17 thematic lectures from major IT companies were organized for 1,500 students: LeverX International, Innowise, PlaysDev, SoftTeco, PixelPlex, Qulix Systems, Modsen, Yandex, Vadarod, and iTechArt.
In 2024, he was awarded a diploma as a finalist in the Andrei Gromyko CIS Young International Relations Competition.
In 2024, he was awarded a letter of gratitude from the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations at BSU "for his high-quality work in supporting the educational process and active participation in organizing scientific and practical events at the Faculty of International Relations at BSU."
In 2024, he joined the Civic Chamber of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) as an expert on the Committee on International Relations and Diplomacy.
In 2022, he was included in the "Top 20 Young Leaders and Promising Politicians of the Post-Soviet Space" ranking compiled by MGIMO jointly with the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the Institute of CIS Countries. The ranking was published on the following websites of the Sputnik news agency:
https://ru.sputnik.kg/20220715/kyrgyzstan-ussr-lidery-kyrgyzstantsy-1066087000.html
In 2022, he was awarded the Honorary Certificate of the Chairman of the Youth Parliament under the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus "for supporting the youth parliamentary movement of the Republic of Belarus and actively participating in the implementation of the initiatives of the Youth Council (Parliament) of the first convocation under the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus."
From 2021 to 2024, as part of the collaboration between the Center for International Studies of the Faculty of International Relations of Belarusian State University and state media, he provided expert commentary to journalists at SB.Belarus Today, ONT, and STV. He has repeatedly commented on international issues in television news programs. Specifically, on September 15, 2022, he appeared on the program "Our News" (ONT) analyzing the situation regarding food security in Eastern Europe and Africa, and on September 10, 2023, he appeared on the program "Itogi Nedeli" (STV) on the topic of cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and African countries.
In 2021, he participated in a five-day workshop organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for young diplomats and specialists with up to one year of experience at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as students and faculty from specialized universities (December 6-10, 2021). Following the project, he received a certificate of participation from the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
In 2021, he was awarded a letter of gratitude from the Rector of the BIP "for his high-quality work in ensuring the educational process and active participation in the development of the educational institution 'BIP - University of Law and Social and Information Technologies'."
In 2020, by Order No. 430 of the Rector of the BIP dated November 9, 2020, he was inscribed on the Honor Board.
In 2019, he participated in the Gorchakov Fund's main scientific and educational program, "Dialogue for the Future."
In 2018, as Deputy Chairman of the Eurasian Partnership National Public Institution, he organized an open lecture by Mikhail Demidenko, Deputy Director of the Center for Integration Studies at the Eurasian Development Bank, at the Faculty of International Relations at Belarusian State University on the topic "The Republic of Belarus in the Eurasian Economic Union." He co-organized the roundtable discussion "The Republic of Belarus and Eurasian Integration: Dialogue between Government, Science, and Business," which was held as part of the 3rd Belarusian Entrepreneurship Week.
In 2017, as Deputy Chairman of the Eurasian Partnership National Public Institution, he organized and delivered a series of lectures on Eurasian integration at the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Minsk.
In 2017, he participated in the research project "Harmonization and Reduction of Non-Tariff Barriers between the EAEU and the EU" at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria).
In 2017, he was included in the "Young Leaders of the EAEU" ranking compiled by the Expert and Analytical Center of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
https://eadaily.com/be/news/2017/03/01/molodye-lidery-eaes-lantratova-karapetyan-ardzinba
Research interests: foreign policy of the Republic of Belarus, Eurasian integration, political communications, public diplomacy.
- Toma A. Yu. The soft power of the USA as an instrument of foreign policy influence on the Union State / Actual problems of international relations and global development: coll. science articles. – Minsk, 2021. – Issue 9. – P. 263-275.
- Toma A. Yu. Socio-economic advantages of integration within the framework of the EAEU for the Republic of Belarus / Integration processes in Eurasia: state, challenges, prospects: collection of scientific articles of the I International Scientific and Practical Conference (Republic of Belarus, Minsk, February 17, 2023) / Belarusian State University; editor: E. A. Dostanko (see editor) [etc.]. - Minsk: Chetyre Chevterti, 2023. - 190 p.
- Toma A. Yu. Prospects for the development of integration projects in the post-Soviet space under sanctions pressure // Belarus in the modern world = Belarus in the modern world: materials XXII Mezhdunar. science conf., consecration 102nd anniversary of the formation of Belarus. Gos. University, Minsk, October 26. 2023 / Belarus. Gos. university; editor: E. A. Dostanko (see editor) [etc.]. — Minsk: BSU, 2023. P. 593-598.
- Toma A. Yu. Political communication of the bodies of the EAEU, the CIS, the CSTO and the Union State // Actual problems of international relations and global development: coll. science articles. Minsk, 2023. Issue 11. P. 251-263.
- Toma A. Yu. Perspectives of creating a media holding of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Integration processes in Eurasia: state, challenges, prospects [Electronic resource]: materials II Mezhdunar. scientific-practical Conf., Rep. Belarus, Minsk, April 16. 2024 / Belarus. Gos. university; editor: E. A. Dostanko (see editor) [etc.]. – Minsk: BSU, 2024. - C. 77-83.
- Toma A. Yu. External policy of the Republic of Belarus in the conditions of countermeasures against sanctions pressure // Belarus in the modern world = Belarus in the modern world: materials of the XXIII International Scientific Conference, Minsk, October 24, 2024 / Belarus. Gos. university; editor: E. A. Dostanko (see editor) [etc.]. — Minsk: BSU, 2024. C. 72-77.
- Toma A. Yu. Interconnection of the EAEU, SCO and BRICS in the conditions of changes in the architecture of international relations // Collection of articles of the finalists of the competition of young CIS internationalists named after A.A. Gromyko 2024 / edited by Al.A. Gromyko, N.M. Mezhevicha, A.A. Prikhodko, M.M. Borodenko. M.: Institute of Europe RAS, Assoc. foreign policy research named after A.A. Gromyko – 2024. P. 30-35.