Igor Petrovich Sergeenko (; born 14 January 1963) is a Belarusian politician serving as speaker of the

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since 2024. Sergeenko graduated from the

Belarusian State University The Belarusian State University (BSU) (, ; ) is a university in Minsk, Belarus. It was founded on October 30, 1921. The university was ranked 387th in the world in the 2023 QS World University Rankings. History 1919–1949 On February 25, 1919, ...

in 1984 and from the Presidential Academy of Public Administration in 2006. He worked in the

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since 1989. Sergeenko served as first deputy chairman of the State Security Committee from 2014 to 2019, and as head of the Presidential Administration from 2019 to 2024. He is a Major general.

International sanctions

Following the

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, he was added to the sanctions list of the European Union in early 2011. After the

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Sergeenko was again sanctioned, first by the Baltic states, and later the same year by the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Switzerland, and several EU-aligned countries.

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