Presidential Administration of Belarus

Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus

Администрация Президента Республики Беларусь
The office of the Presidential Administration of Belarus in Minsk
Agency overview
Formed	1994
Headquarters	Belarus, Minsk, 43 Kirova Street [1]
Agency executive	[1], Administration Head
Website	http://president.gov.by/

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The Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus (Russian: Администрация Президента Республики Беларусь, Belarusian: Адміністрацыя Прэзідэнта Р��спублікі Беларусь) is a state administration body of Belarus that supervises the implementation of the resolutions of the President of Belarus.

Functions[]

The Presidential Administration has been created following a constitutional reform and the first presidential election in Belarus held in 1994. Alexander Lukashenko has been occupying the post as President of Belarus ever since. He has been accused of installing an authoritarian regime in Belarus. No other presidential elections in the country have been considered free and fair by the United States and the European Union.

The Administration of the President plays a key role in the Belarusian authoritarian system of state governance. The administration organizes the interaction between the President and legislative, executive and judicial bodies, local authorities, and mass media; provides analytical support to the President of Belarus. It drafts presidential decisions and legislation that is subsequently formally approved by the Parliament of Belarus.

Current leadership[]

• , Head of the Presidential Administration
• , First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration
• , Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration
• , Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration

Accusations[]

Given the strategic importance of the Presidential Administration in the Belarusian system of power, senior officials of the administration of President Lukashenko have been accused by the United States and the European Union of orchestrating state propaganda that has been justifying political repressions and electoral fraud.

After the presidential elections of 2006 and 2010 top officials from the Presidential Administration have been included in EU and US sanctions lists and thereby made subject to travel bans and asset freeze.

Officials of the Presidential Administration sanctioned by the US and EU[]

United States sanctions list^[2][]

• Natalia Petkevich, First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Belarus in 2004–2010
• Alexander Radkov, Former Minister of Education, then leader of the Belaya Rus movement and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration
• Vladimir Rusakevich, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration

EU sanctions list following the 2006 Belarusian presidential election^[3][]

• , Head of the Presidential Administration
• Natalia Petkevich, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration
• , Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in charge of media and ideology
• Oleg Proleskovsky, Head of the Main Ideological department at the Presidential Administration

EU sanctions list following the 2010 Belarusian presidential election^[4][]

• Vsevolod Yanchevski, Head of the Ideological Department of the Presidential Administration and Assistant to the President
• Oleg Proleskovsky, former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, former Head of General Directorate for Ideology and Centre of Analysis and Information
• , former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in charge of Media and Ideology (in 2006–2008)
• , Director of the Information and Analytical Centre of the Presidential Administration
• Pavel Yakubovich, Editor-in-Chief of Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, the official newspaper of the Presidential Administration
• Vadzim Hihin, Editor-in-Chief of , a monthly journal of the Presidential Administration
• , former First Deputy Director of the Information and Analytical Centre of the Presidential Administration
• , Deputy Director of the Information and Analytical Centre of the Presidential Administration
• , Deputy Director of the Information and Analytical Centre of the Presidential Administration

Remaining EU sanctions list after 2016^[5][]

• Viktor Sheiman, Head of the Management Department of the Presidential Administration. Accused of being responsible for the unresolved disappearances of opposition leaders Yuri Zakharenko, Viktor Gonchar, opposition sponsor Anatoly Krasovski, and journalist Dmitri Zavadski in 1999–2000. Also included in EU's previous lists.
• , former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration. Accused of having orchestrated the unresolved disappearances of Yuri Zakharenko, Viktor Gonchar, Anatoly Krasovski and Dmitri Zavadski in 1999–2000. Also included in EU's previous lists.

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