Paviel Liohki, head of the presidential press office, has been appointed counselor at the Belarusian embassy in Russia.
Liohki refused to say anything about his appointment. “Just like today, I'll be at my workplace at the Presidential Administration tomorrow,” he told BelaPAN.
Liohki was appointed to head the presidential press office in 2003 instead of Dzmitry Zhuk, who was transferred to the position of director general of the government's news agency BelTA.
Until 2004, Aliaksandr Lukashenka's press office had included a spokesperson. The last person to hold this position was Natallya Piatkievich, who was later promoted to first deputy head of the Presidential Administration.
RFE/RL in its article on the appointment of Liohki to Moscow draws attention to the fact that Lukasehnka’s press secretary wasn’t actually a public person.
Few have seen him with their own eyes — he mainly commented on the events by phone.
He did not hold the press conferences or appeared on TV as his foreign colleagues normally do. He didn’t even have a photo or a short biography on the presidential office website.
However, the position of president’s secretary is probably not an important one.
“What this position is concerned, it — in contrast to the his Russian colleagues — is not influential among officials. Lukashenka has no personal press secretary. Lukashenka is a press secretary for himself,” says journalist Raman Jakaulieuski.
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