Lukashenka Dismisses Korbut From Post Of His Assistant

Mikalai Korbut was transferred to work in the apparatus of the “union state”.

Lukashenka freed Mikalai Korbut from the post of his assistant on general issues, the press-center of the ruler reported. The corresponding decree was signed by Lukashenka on January 23.

Korbut was relieved of his post in connection with his transition to another job. Lukashenka agreed on his appointment to the post of deputy state secretary — a member of the permanent committee of the “union state”.

On May 16, 2017, Lukashenka dismissed Mikalai Korbut as his personal assistant and appointed as an assistant on general issues.

Mikalai Korbut was Lukashenka's aide since September 2016. Prior to that, he served as chief inspector for the Minsk region since 2014. In 2009-2013 he was the manager of affairs of Lukashenka.

From 1994 to 2013 he was the head of the department for servicing the diplomatic corps and official delegations “Dipservice”, Lukashenka’s manager of affairs.

He was born on April 14, 1963 in the village of Uzha, Kopyl district, Minsk region. In 1988 he graduated from the Belarusian State Institute of National Economy named afterV.V. Kuibyshev. He worked as an instructor, a leading specialist of the Minsk District Committee of the Trade Union of Agroindustrialists, chief economist of the financial and economic department of the Committee for Land Reform and Land Management under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus.