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| Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus | |
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| Савет Міністраў Рэспублікі Беларусь | |
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| Overview | |
| Established | 1994 (current form) |
| State | Belarus |
| Leader | Prime Minister |
| Appointed by | President |
| Main organ | Council of Ministers |
| Responsible to | National Assembly President |
| Headquarters | Government House,Minsk |
| Website | government |
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Judiciary |
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TheGovernment of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian:Урад Рэспублікі Беларусь,romanized: Urad Respubliki Byelarus), which consists of theCouncil of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian:Савет Міністраў Рэспублікі Беларусь,romanized: Savyet Ministraw Respubliki Byelarus), is the executive branch of state power inBelarus, and is appointed by thePresident of Belarus. The head of the Government is thePrime Minister of Belarus, who manages the main agenda of the government and direct the ministers.[1]
The Council of Ministers is the highest administrative organ and is responsible for the daily operations of the government. It is reporting to thePresident of Belarus and accountable to theNational Assembly. The Council of Ministers issues resolutions that are binding on the entire territory of the Republic of Belarus. The Prime Minister issues orders within the limits of his competence. It has the following competences[2]
Below are the 30 members of the Council of Ministers as of 19 August 2020, as well as the head of the presidential administration and the chairmen of the State Committees, who are not technically ministers but are included in the Council of Ministers. Offices which are not technically counted as ministerial posts are italicized. The prime minister, the first deputy prime minister(s), the deputy prime minister(s), the ministers of economy, finance, and foreign affairs, the head of the presidential administration, and the chairman of the State Control Committee together form thePresidium of the Council of Ministers. These officials are highlighted in yellow.[4] The incumbent government resigned en masse on 17 August 2020.[5] A new government was formed on 19 August 2020, consisting of mostly the same people.
As of 2023:
| Prime Minister | Alexander Turchin |
| First Deputy Prime Minister | Nikolai Snopkov |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Anatoly Sivak |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Natalia Petkevich |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Yuri Shuleiko |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Viktor Karankevich |
| Minister of Agriculture and Food | Yuri Gorlov |
| Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade | Artur Karpovich |
| Minister of Architecture and Construction | Alexander Studnev |
| Minister of Culture | Ruslan Chernetsky |
| Minister of Defence | Victor Khrenin |
| Minister of Economy | Yuri Chebotar |
| Minister of Education | Andrei Ivanets |
| Minister of Emergency Situations | Vadim Sinyavsky |
| Minister of Energy | Denis Moroz |
| Minister of Finance | Yury Seliverstov |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Maxim Ryzhenkov |
| Minister of Forestry | Alexander Kulik |
| Minister of Health Care | Alexander Khodjaev |
| Minister of Housing-Communal Services | Gennady Trubilo |
| Minister of Industry | Alexander Yefimov |
| Minister of Information | Marat Markov |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Ivan Kubrakov |
| Minister of Justice | Evgeny Kovalenko |
| Minister of Labour and Social Protection | Natalya Pavluchenko |
| Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation | Sergei Maslyak |
| Minister of Sport and Tourism | Sergei Kovalchuk |
| Minister of Taxes and Duties | Dmitry Kiyko |
| Minister of Telecommunications and Informatisation | Kirill Zalessky |
| Minister of Transport and Communications | Alexei Lyakhnovich |
| Chairman of theState Security Committee | Ivan Tertel |
| Chairman of the State Control Committee | Vasily Gerasimov |
| Chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee | Dmitry Pantus |
| Chairman of the State Committee on Property | Dmitry Matusevich |
| Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology | Sergei Shlychkov |
| Chairman of the State Committee on Standardisation | Alena Marhunova |
| Chairman of the State Border Committee | Konstantin Molostov |
| Chairman of the State Customs Committee | Vladimir Orlovsky |
| Head of the Presidential Administration | Dmitry Krutoi |
| Chairman of the National Bank | Roman Golovchenko |
| Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Science | Vladimir Karanik |
| Chairman of the Board of the Republican Union of Consumer Societies | Inesa Karatkevich |
