Government of Belarus

Government of Belarus

Урад Рэспублікі Беларусь
Formation	1994
Jurisdiction	Republic of Belarus
Website	government.gov.by

The Government of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Урад Рэспублікі Беларусь), which consists of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Савет Міністраў Рэспублікі Беларусь), is the executive branch of state power in Belarus, and it is appointed by the President of Belarus. The head of the Government is the Prime Minister of Belarus, who manages the main agenda of the government and direct the ministers.

Council of Ministers

Below are the 32 members of the Council of Ministers as of January 2016. The Prime Minister, the head of his administration, the chairman of the State Control Committee, the five deputy prime ministers and three selected ministers together form the Presidium of the Council of Ministers. These officials are highlighted in yellow.

Prime Minister	Andrei Kobyakov
Chief of staff to the President of Belarus	Alexander Kosinets
Chairman of the State Control Committee	Leonid Anfimov
First Deputy Prime Minister	Vasily Matyushevsky
Deputy Prime Minister	Anatoly Kalinin
Deputy Prime Minister	Natalia Kochanova
Deputy Prime Minister	Mikhail Rusyi
Deputy Prime Minister	Vladimir Semashko
Minister of Agriculture and Food	Leonid Zayats
Minister of Architecture and Construction	Anatoly Cherny
Minister of Communication and Informatization	Sergei Popkov
Minister of Culture	Boris Svetlov
Minister of Defence	Andrei Ravkov
Minister of Economy	Vladimir Zinovsky
Minister of Education	Mihail Zhuravkov
Minister of Emergency Situations	Vladimir Vashchenko
Minister of Energy	Vladimir Potupchik
Minister of Finance	Vladimir Amarin
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Vladimir Makei
Minister of Forestry	Mikhail Amelianovich
Minister of Public Health	Vasily Zharko
Minister of Housing and Communal Services	Alexandr Terekhov
Minister of Industry	Vitaly Vovk
Minister of Information	Liliya Ananich
Minister of Internal Affairs	Igor Shunevich
Minister of Justice	Oleg Slizhevsky
Minister of Labour and Social Protection	Marianna Shchetkina
Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection	Andrei Kovkhuto
Minister of Tax Collection	Sergey Nalivaiko
Minister of Trade	Vladimir Koltovich
Minister of Transport and Communications	Anatoly Sivak
Minister of Sports and Tourism	Alexander Shamko

Chairmen of the State Committees

State Security Committee	Valery Vakulchik
State Military-Industrial Committee	Sergei Gurulev
State Committee on Property	Andrey Gaev
State Science and Technology Committee	Victor Nazarenko
State Border Committee	Leonid Maltsev
State Customs Committee	Yuri Senko

Heads of the subordinate agencies

State Food Industry Concern	Alexander Zabello
State Petroleum and Chemicals Concern	Igor Lyashenko
State Light Industry Goods Production and Sales Concern	Nikolay Efimchik
Production and Trade Concern of Forestry, Woodworking and Pulp-and-Paper Industry	Yuri Nazarov
Republican Union of Consumer Cooperatives	Valery Ivanov
Republican Centre for Sanatorium-and-Spa Treatment	Gennady Bolbatovsky
Commissioner for Religions and Nationalities	Leonid Gouliako

See also

• Supreme Soviet of Belarus, the preceding supreme state power in Belarus

References

• Government structure, Council of Ministers of Belarus