Maksimas Milta is a graduate student in European & Russian Studies at Yale. He is a ReThink.CEE Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US and an Associate Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. Maksimas is a frequent commentator on Belarus affairs; also, he hosted an award-winning 10-episode documentary exploring the role of Belarusian women during the 2020 protests. Before Yale, Maksimas worked at the European Humanities University, a Vilnius-based Belarusian University-in-Exile.