President makes new appointments

    On 10 April President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko made some new appointments and took a number of personnel-related decisions. The head of state made the following appointments:

    Mikhail Rusyi

    Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus

    Leonid Marinich

    Acting Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus

    Vladimir Archakov

    Head of the KGB Office for Vitebsk Oblast

    Vadim Sinyavsky

    Head of the Guard Department of the Interior Ministry

    Oleg Kravtsov

    Chairman of the Republican Labor Arbitration

    The President also approved the appointment of:

    Yelena Kupchina

    Deputy Foreign Minister

    Sergei Shmatov

    Chairman of the Braslav District Executive Committee

    Alexander Krivogin

    Head of the Central Counterintelligence Office of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus

    Alexander Pokumeiko

    Head of the Central Office for Protecting the Constitutional System and Fight against Terrorism of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus

    Alexander Tolstashov

    Head of the Central Office for Counterintelligence Support of Law Enforcement and Audit Bodies, Fight against Corruption and Organized Crime of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus

    Vladimir Varaksa

    Director of the Geology Department of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry

    Aleksei Anoshko

    Director General of the Belarusian state corporation for procuring, processing, and supplying waste metal, Director of the open joint-stock company Belvtorchermet

    Vasily Kostyukevich

    Director General of the open joint-stock company SvetlogorskKhimvolokno

    Yuri Mosiyenko

    Director of the open joint-stock company AGAT - Control Systems – Managing Company of Geoinformation Control Systems Holding Company

    Aleksandr Lukashenko told Mikhail Rusyi: "I had no qualms about appointing you to this post. You do not have to get familiar with the state of affairs. You know your main responsibility area, which is agriculture, through and through".

    The President stressed that agriculture is a promising export-oriented industry for Belarus. It is important to raise agricultural export up to $5-7 billion within the five-year term. The growth rate is fast, but it will be not easy to secure high performance, according to the head of state.

    "I hope that the specific projects we agreed on in the field, at the farm, at specific facilities will be implemented even faster than we planned back then," Aleksandr Lukashenko said.


    The President pointed out that a powerful candidate should be nominated for the post of the agriculture and food minister, someone as worthy as the previous minister.