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Syamyon Shapira appointed head of Minsk Regional Executive Committee

Alyaksandr Lukashenka has, by his presidential edict, transferred Syamyon Shapira, head of the Hrodna Regional Executive Committee, to the position of head of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee.

The previous head of the Minsk regional government, Barys Batura, was dismissed by the Belarusian leader following his November 8 inspection visit to AAT Barysawdrew, a woodworking company in Barysaw, Minsk region.

Born in 1961 in the village of Rechen in the Lyuban district, Minsk region, Dr. Shapira, who holds a doctor’s degree in economics, has served as head of the Hrodna Regional Executive Committee since May 2010.

Dr. Shapira served as director general of AAT Ahrakambinat Dzyarzhynski, a large diversified farming company in the Minsk region, between 2002 and 2008 and as minister of agriculture and food between April 2008 and May 2010.

In the position of head of the Hrodna Regional Executive Committee, he has been replaced by Uladzimir Krawtsow, who has been chairperson of the House of Representatives’ standing Committee on Economic Policy since 2012.

Born in 1953 in the city of Podporozhye, in Russia’s Leningrad province, Mr. Krawtsow graduated from the Mahilyow Mechanical Engineering Institute in 1975 and the Academy of Social Sciences under the aegis of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Mr. Krawtsow served as deputy head of the Mahilyow Regional Executive Committee between 2002 and 2007 and as first deputy head of the Mahilyow Regional Executive Committee between 2007 and 2012.