{"id":144495,"date":"2025-06-28T22:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/144495\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"former-police-spokeswoman-chairs-pro-lukasenka-party","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/144495\/","title":{"rendered":"Former police spokeswoman elected as leader pro-\u0141uka\u0161enka party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chemodanova_cik.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chemodanova_cik.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chemodanova_cik-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chemodanova_cik-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chemodanova_cik-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chemodanova_cik-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(CEC)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 28, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Volha \u010camadanava, head of the Minsk city government&#8217;s ideology chief, has been elected as chairwoman of the pro-government Bie\u0142aja Ru\u015b party, the state media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party\u2019s supreme political council and delegates elected her at a meeting in Minsk on June 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late 2018, \u010camadanava was appointed spokeswoman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before that, she oversaw juvenile affairs at the Minsk District Executive Committee\u2019s Internal Affairs Directorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She served with the police until 2021, when she was transferred to the Minsk City Executive Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also chairs the Minsk grassroots organization of the Belarusian Women\u2019s Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u010camadanava is an ardent supporter of Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka. She became prominent in 2020, when police cracked down on mass protests against election fraud, as she defended police violence and political repression. During her tenure as spokeswoman, police-linked social media often posted so-called forced confessions extracted from detainees. Many videos showed signs of violence against protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October 2024, in the run-up to the presidential election, \u010camadanava asked the Central Election Commission to register her campaign to run for president. Although her request was granted,\u00a0\u010camadanava withdrew just two weeks later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2pexels-becerra-govea-photo-6065986-300x125.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2pexels-becerra-govea-photo-6065986-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2pexels-becerra-govea-photo-6065986-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2pexels-becerra-govea-photo-6065986-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2pexels-becerra-govea-photo-6065986.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> The Viewer<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">The Viewer<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">\u0141uka\u0161enka reluctant to share powers with loyalist dummy parties<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">Four political parties remain in Belarus after a political purge that followed the 2020 postelection protests. Although all of them are completely loyal to Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, he made it clear that they will play little role in politics, including during &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/longreads\/48926\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 28, Pozirk. Volha \u010camadanava, head of the Minsk city government&#8217;s ideology chief, has been elected as chairwoman of the pro-government Bie\u0142aja Ru\u015b party, the state media reported. The party\u2019s supreme political council and delegates elected her at a meeting in Minsk on June 27. In late 2018, \u010camadanava was appointed spokeswoman for the Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":111892,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-144495","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former police spokeswoman elected as leader pro-\u0141uka\u0161enka party | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 28, Pozirk. 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