Gennady Vasilievich Novitsky (born January 2, 1949) is a

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

ian

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, born in

Mogilev Mogilev (; , ), also transliterated as Mahilyow (, ), is a city in eastern Belarus. It is located on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, about from the Belarus–Russia border, border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from Bryansk Oblast. As of 2024, ...

. He was a

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from 1997 to 2001. He has held various positions including the position as the 5th

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under the Presidency of

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making hi ...

. He held this position from October 2001 until

Sergei Sidorsky Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky (born 13 March 1954) is a Belarusian politician who served as prime minister of Belarus from 11 July 2004 to 28 December 2010. He was appointed acting prime minister on July 11, 2004 to replace the dismissed Gennady N ...

's appointment in July 2003."Alexander Lukashenko Holds a Meeting with Members of the Government, Chairpersons of the Regional Executive Committees and Minsk City Executive Committee".
The State for the People!: The Official Internet Portal of the President of the Republic of Belarus. Retrieved 15 April 2012. More recently, Novitsky held the post of speaker of Council of the Republic of Belarus.

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