Mikalai Damashkevich: “Stop disgracing me all over the country” :: Charter'97 :: News

Today Alyaksandr Lukashenka dismissed head of the Minsk regional executive council Mikalai Damashkevich. Events from the “disgraced official’s “ biography: after Lukashenka had been elected President of Belarus Damashkevich was appointed the head of the control service at President of the Republic of Belarus and then the head of the state control committee of the Republic of Belarus.

Dismissal of Mikalai Damashkevich has been the subject of talks for years. In July 2003 Lukashenka announced a rebuke to Mikalai Damashkevich among other state officials and ordered the government, the state control committee, and President’s administration ” to enforce the demand and provide systematic control of implementation of all presidential orders».

The black cat is supposed to run between the President and the governor when at the selector meeting concerning harvesting in August 2004 Lukashenka got a rebuff from Mikalai Damashkevich during the traditional public “ whipping”:

Damashkevich: My soul aches me when I think of harvesting!
Lukashenka: I don’t need your aching soul. Why haven’t you procured the harvesting machines beforehand?
Damashkevich: It’s not my fault and I am not going to take other people’s faults upon myself, I am an honest person. Stop disgracing me all over the country”.

Mikalai Damashkevich’s dismissal is associated with the activities of head of the state control committee Zyanon Lomats, who was given the license for all sorts of actions for protecting the state’s interests. The chair under the head of the Minsk regional executive council rocked another time when he didn’t let the state control committee representative to the Minsk regional executive council sitting.