Translator, blogger with an anti-war humanistic stance, author of textbooks, cultural and educational activist, lecturer, and former associate professor of the Italian language department at Minsk State Linguistic University.
On 3 October 2022, she was detained in Minsk for participating in peaceful post-election protests. Before this, Natalla had been detained four times and subjected to administrative persecution under politically motivated offence reports.
On 5 October 2022, Natalla was recognised as a political prisoner.
On 7 February 2023, the Minsk Regional Court began a closed trial in her criminal case.
On 10 March 2023, she was sentenced to three and a half years in a minimum-security penal colony under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (organising, preparing or actively participating in actions that grossly violate public order) and Article 361-4 (facilitating extremist activity).
On 2 June 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus included Natalla Dulina in the “extremist list”.
From 20 June 2023, she was incarcerated in women’s correctional colony No. 4 in Homiel.
On 21 June 2025, Natalla was released among 14 political prisoners following a visit to Minsk by Keith Kellogg, the U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy.
Publications:
O. Dulina, History of the Italian Language, Minsk: MSLU, 2004