Vitali Silitski (Belarusian: ?????? ???????; Russian: ??????? ???????????? ????????; 25 December 1972 – 11 June 2011) was a Belarusian political scientist, analyst, the first director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies.
He got his PhD in political science from the Rutgers University (New Jersey, U.S.).
Vitali Silitski is the author of the concepts of preventive authoritarianism and authoritarian international; civil activist and blogger.
He died at the age of 38 years from kidney cancer.