Aleksandr Lukashenko makes personnel decisions

    On 31 July, President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko made a number of personnel decisions. The head of state has appointed

    Anatoly Sivak

    Transport and Communications Minister

    Oleg Paferov

    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

    Vladimir Morozov

    Head of the Belarusian Railways

    Alexander Sukalo

    Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

    Andrei Gayev

    Director of the National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus

    Sergei Simonenko

    Head of the Main Department of Technical Planning and Coordination – First Deputy Head of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus

    Sergei Novikov

    Head of the Transport Department of the Defense Ministry

    The President has approved the appointment of:

    Andrei Charnenko

    Chairman of the Vetka District Executive Committee

    Dmitry Petrozhitsky

    Chairman of the Loyev District Executive Committee

    Dmitry Kaleyev

    Chairman of the Bykhov District Executive Committee

    Sergei Rumas

    Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Development of the Republic of Belarus

    Alexander Arkhipov

    Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus

    Oleg Lavrukhin

    Prosecutor for Minsk Oblast

    Sergei Khmaruk

    Prosecutor for the City of Minsk

    Ivan Noskevich

    Prosecutor for Brest Oblast

    Sergei Bervin

    Head of the Secretariat of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus

    Vladimir Archakov

    Member of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee

    Igor Yevseyev

    Member of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee

    Anatoly Tyukov

    Director General of the state production association Mogilevliftmash

    The President also made several personnel decisions.

    For improper discharge of official duties in ensuring the national security of the Republic of Belarus the following executives have been dismissed.

    Major-General Igor Rachkovsky is no longer the Chairman of the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus and is now at disposal of the said committee.

    Major-General Dmitry Pakhmelkin is no longer the Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Troops of the Belarusian Armed Forces and is now at disposal of the Defense Minister.

    Service incompetence notes have been handed to Belarusian Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Yuri Zhadobin and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister of the Republic of Belarus, Major-General Piotr Tikhonovsky.

    Apart from that, State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus, Colonel-General Leonid Maltsev has been reprimanded as well as Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus, Lieutenant-General Vadim Zaitsev.