Mikhail Vladimirovich Myasnikovich (born 6 May 1950) is a Belarusian politician who was

Prime Minister of Belarus The prime minister of the Republic of Belarus (; ) is the head of government of Belarus. Until 1991, it was known as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as the head of the government of the cons ...

from 2010 to 2014. He was the Chairman of the Board of the

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from 2020 to 2024.

Career

Early years and education

Mikhail Myasnikovich was born in Novy Snov, Nesvizh Raion, Minsk Region,

Byelorussian SSR The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, Byelorussian SSR or Byelorussia; ; ), also known as Soviet Belarus or simply Belarus, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). It existed between 1920 and 1922 as an independent state, and ...

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. In 1972, he graduated as an engineer from Brest State Technical University. In 1972-73, Myasnikovich served in the

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. From 1973 to 1983 Worked at the Minsk Water Supply and Water Treatment Plant, the Department of Public Utilities' Companies for the Minsk City Executive Committee. From 1983 to 1984, he was a Chairman of the Executive Committee on the Soviet District Council of Minsk of People's Deputies, and from 1984 to 1985 was a deputy chairman of the Executive Committee of the

Minsk City Council of Deputies Minsk City Council of Deputies (; abbreviated as Minsk City Council (Belarusian: Мінгарсавет) is a representative body, unicameralism, unicameral city council of the Belarusian Capital city, Capital of Minsk. It is composed of 57 deputi ...

. In 1985–1986, he was a secretary of the Minsk City Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus. From 1986 to 1991 worked at the Ministry of Housing and Public Utilities of the BSSR and the Committee for Economy and Planning of the BSSR. In 1991–1994, he was a deputy prime minister, from 1995 to 2001 head of Administration in the President's Office (1995–2001). In 2006, Myasnikovich appeared in the

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list of 50 richest men in Belarus with a $296 mln fortune.

Prime Minister of Belarus

Dmitry Medvedev and Mikhail Myasnikovich 18 July 2012

Myasinkovich was appointed by President

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 ...

to serve as

following the 2010 presidential election; he served until 27 December 2014.

Further career

On 20 December 2019, by decision of the heads of state of the Eurasian Economic Union (Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan), Mikhail Myasnikovich was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission. He held this position from 1 February 2020 to 1 February 2024, succeeding Tigran Sargsyan,

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's representative in the EEC. In 2024, Myasnikovich stepped down, replaced by

Bakhytjan Sagintayev Bakhytzhan Abdiruly Sagintayev (, , , ; born 13 October 1963) is a Kazakh politician who was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, from 9 September 2016 until his resignation on 21 February 2019. He served as the Äkim of Almaty from 28 June 2019 unt ...

In science

In 1998, Myasnikovich defended his thesis "Financial and industrial groups and their role in the formation of market relations". In 2003, he became a professor. He made a significant contribution to the development of the theory of the socially-oriented market economy of the Republic of Belarus, its innovative development and modernisation. In 2001-2010, Myasnikovich was the chairman of the

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. Honorary Doctor of St. Petersburg State University of Economics (2008), Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (2011). Honorary Professor of Brest State Technical University (2013), Belarusian State University (2017). Author of over 160 scientific papers, including 15 monographs on economics and state building.

Honours and accolades

*1981 — Badge of Honour (Belarus); *2000 — Order of the Fatherland (Belarus), III degree; *2009 —

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; *2010 — Friendship Medal (China); *2010 — Grand Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia; *2020 — Order of the Fatherland (Belarus), II degree; *2024 —

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