Lukashenka reshuffles KGB

The Belarusian dictator made a number of personnel decisions.

The number of new chiefs of KGB offices strikes the eye.

Alyaksandr Kryvohin is appointed chief of the KGB  central counterintelligence office; Alyaksandr Pakumeika is appointed head of the KGB central office for protecting the constitutional system and fight against terrorism; Alyaksandr Taustashou is appointed head of the KGB central office for counterintelligence support of law enforcement and auditing bodies, fight against corruption and organized crime; Uladzimir Archakou is appointed the head of the KGB office for the Vitebsk region.

Other appointments include Mikhail Rusy as Deputy Prime Minister; Leanid Marynich as acting Minister of Agriculture and Food; Aleh Krautsou as chairman of the National Labor Arbitration; Alena Kupchyna as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Vadzim Sinyauski as head of the Guard Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The personnel reshuffle also touched the industrial sector. Vasily Kastyukevich was appointed Director General of Svetlogorsk Khimvolokno JSC, Yury Masiyenka was appointed the Director of joint stock company AGAT - Control Systems – Managing Company of Geoinformation Control Systems Holding.