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.