{"id":205478,"date":"2026-09-28T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/205478\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:00:30","slug":"lukasenka-appoints-new-trade-minister-other-officials","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/205478\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka appoints new trade minister, other officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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September 28, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has appointed Alaksandar Jako\u016d\u010dyc, former deputy agriculture minister, as new minister of antimonopoly regulation and trade, instructing him to \u201cfinally resolve pricing issues,\u201d the Belarusian ruler\u2019s press office reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ta\u0107ciana \u0160a\u016dcova was named as his first deputy. D\u017amitryj Basko will chair the State Committee for Standardization, while Viktar Sialicki will serve as the first deputy chair of the State Control Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aleh D\u017aja\u010denka was appointed as commissioner for religious and ethnic affairs. Andrej Kuncevi\u010d, former deputy information minister, will head the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research, a state-run think tank set up on \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s orders in 2019 to spread propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141uka\u0161enka also appointed Jaras\u0142a\u016d \u010carkaski, a 46-year-old who had started his career at the State Committee for State Security (KGB), as Belarusian Ambassador to Syria and Jordan. D\u017amitryj Charyton\u010dyk and Ihar Ba\u0142ota\u016d will serve as Belarusian consuls general in Russia\u2019s Kazan and Novosibirsk, respectively, while Alaksandar \u0160alima\u016d will head the Belarusian consulate general in Chongqing, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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