Government of Belarus

The Government of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Урад Рэспублікі Беларусь, romanized: Urad Respubliki Byelarus), which consists of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Савет Міністраў Рэспублікі Беларусь, romanized: Savyet Ministraw Respubliki Byelarus), is the executive branch of state power in Belarus, and is appointed by the President of Belarus. The head of the Government is the President of Belarus, who manages the main agenda of the government and direct the ministers.^[1]

Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus
Савет Міністраў Рэспублікі Беларусь
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.gov.by

Powers and duties

The Council of Ministers is the highest administrative organ and is responsible for the daily operations of the government. It is reporting to the President of Belarus and accountable to the National 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]

• Manages the system of state administration bodies and other executive bodies subordinate to it, including:^[3] state administrative bodies, ministries, state committees, concerns (Belgoskharchprom [ru], Bellegprom [be], Bellespopreprom [be], Belneftekhim) and organizations subordinate to the government (Belarusian Republican Union of Consumer Societies [be])
• Develops the main directions of domestic and foreign policy and takes measures to implement them;
• Develops and submits to the President for submission to Parliament a draft republican budget and a report on its implementation;
• Ensures the implementation of a unified economic, financial, credit and monetary policy, state policy in the fields of science, culture, education, healthcare, ecology, social security and wages;
• Takes measures to ensure the rights and freedoms of citizens, protect the interests of the state, national security and defense, protect property and public order, and combat crime;
• Acts on behalf of the owner in relation to property owned by the Republic of Belarus, organizes the management of state property;
• Ensures the implementation of the Constitution, laws and decrees, decrees and orders of the President;
• Repeals acts of ministries and other republican state administration bodies;
• Exercises other powers vested in it by the Constitution, laws and acts of the President.

Structure

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 the Presidium 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.

Composition

As of 2023:

Prime Minister	Roman Golovchenko
First Deputy Prime Minister	Nikolai Snopkov
Deputy Prime Minister	Vladimir Karanik
Minister of Agriculture and Food	Igor Brylo
Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade	Alexei Bogdanov
Minister of Architecture and Construction	Ruslan Parkhamovich
Minister of Culture	Anatoly Markevich
Minister of Defence	Victor Khrenin
Minister of Economy	Alexander Chervyakov
Minister of Education	Andrei Ivanets
Minister of Emergency Situations	Vadim Sinyavsky
Minister of Energy	Victor Karankevich
Minister of Finance	Yury Seliverstov
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Sergei Aleinik
Minister of Forestry	Alexander Kulik
Minister of Health Care	Aleksandr Khodzhayev
Minister of Housing-Communal Services	vacant
Minister of Industry	Alexander Rogozhnik
Minister of Information	Vladimir Pertsov
Minister of Internal Affairs	Ivan Kubrakov
Minister of Justice	Sergei Khomenko
Minister of Labour and Social Protection	Irina Kostevich
Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation	Andrei Khudyk
Minister of Sport and Tourism	Sergei Kovalchuk
Minister of Taxes and Duties	Sergei Nalivaiko
Minister of Telecommunications and Informatisation	Konstantin Shulgan
Minister of Transport and Communications	vacant
Chairman of the State 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	Valentin Tataritsky
Chairman of the State Border Committee	Konstantin Molostov
Chairman of the State Customs Committee	Vladimir Orlovsky
Head of the Presidential Administration	Igor Sergeenko
Chairman of the National Bank	Pavel Kallaur
Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Science	Vladimir Gusakov
Chairman of the Board of the Republican Union of Consumer Societies	Oleg Matskevich