Belarus President makes new appointments

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made new appointments on 11 March.

The head of state appointed:

Dmitry Gora - Chairman of the Investigative Committee;

Vadim Sinyavsky - Emergencies Minister;

Viktor Gulevich - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Defense Minister;

Andrei Zhuk - Deputy Defense Minister;

Igor Demidenko - Commander of the Troops of the Western Operational Command of the Armed Forces;

Aleksandr Naumenko - Commander of the Troops of the Northwest Operational Command of the Armed Forces;

Anton Krayevsky - Deputy Head of the Belarus Property Management Directorate;

Aleksandr Valiyev - First Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Committee;

Andrei Bolshakov - Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Committee;

Eduard Danilovich - Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Committee.

The President also approved the appointment:

Igor Genz - Chairman of the Iviev District Executive Committee;

Maksim Lysenko – Chairman of the Dzerzhinsk District Executive Committee;

Artur Putyato – Rector of the Sukhoi State Technical University of Gomel;

Valery Dunai – Rector of the Polesie State University;

Oleg Romanov – Rector of the Polotsk State University;

Nikolai Borisevich – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;

Igor Skrinnikov – Deputy Taxes and Duties Minister;

Tatiana Brantsevich – Deputy Energy Minister;

Denis Moroz – Deputy Energy Minister;

Sergei Kalinovsky – Deputy Justice Minister;

Dmitry Bartashevich – First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Standardization;

Anatoly Sharshun – Director of the Securities Department of the Finance Ministry;

Evgeny Lazarev – Consul General of Belarus in Dubai, the UAE

Piotr Dulub – First Deputy Head of the Belarusian Railways.