It is noteworthy that most of them immediately after their resignation connected their fate with Russian business or moved to work in Russia.

Petro Kravchenko: sold Russian energy sources to Asia

72 years old.

He was a minister in the period from 1991 to 1994.

First Minister of Foreign Affairs of independent Belarus.

Before that, he was the secretary of the Minsk Committee of the CPSU.

During the 1994 elections, he actively supported

Vyacheslav Kebich

, therefore, after the victory of Lukashenka, he lost his position.

Petro Kravchenko, 2018

For some time he worked at the Academy of Sciences.

He became a deputy of the Supreme Council of the 13th convocation, where he signed the impeachment of Lukashenka.

In 1998, at Lukashenka's suggestion, he returned to public service and became the ambassador of Belarus to Japan.

Resignation in 2002 was scandalous.

Lukashenka said: "He created such a thing there that everyone, from the emperor to the homeless, shuddered.

He fled 200 kilometers away and hid the seal."

Lukashenka called on the special services to "find out and bring him to the country."

As a result, the scandal was resolved and the ambassador returned to Belarus.

Kravchenko even stated that he does not rule out participation in the presidential elections, criticized Lukashenka a lot and harshly.

Pyotr Kravchenko did not particularly advertise his further places of work.

Once, in an interview with Svaboda, he said that he got a job in Moscow, where he is engaged in the supply of energy carriers to South Korea, Japan and China.

"Brotherly Russia uses my connections and contacts for its own benefit," he said.

For some time, Pyotr Kravchenko was not visible in politics and public space.

In 2006, he published a book of memoirs "Belarus at a turning point" in Moscow, a year later it was published in Belarusian in the series "Our Field Bookstore".

The ex-minister often attended cultural events in Belarus, he is a well-known collector of old books.

Together with other former ministers, he participated in community meetings under the roof of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Minsk Dialogue.

He was even at a closed meeting with Alexander Lukashenko.

He never returned to political life.

Vladimir Syanko: went as ambassador to France and Belgium

76 years old, he was a minister in the period from 1994 to 1997.

A native of the Chashnytsky district of the Vitebsk region.

He also worked in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

Prior to his appointment as a minister, he was the ambassador of Belarus to Poland.

Vladimir Syanko, 2017

During Syanko's tenure as a minister, a scandal occurred: then his deputy

Andrei Sannikov publicly left the state service,

declaring his disagreement with Lukashenka's policy.

After resigning from the ministerial post, Syanko remained in diplomacy.

First, he was the ambassador of Belarus to France (1997–2004), and then to Belgium (2004–2011).

It was in France under Syanko that Vladimir Makei began his diplomatic career.

In 2012, Syanko became a member of the Council of the Republic, where he headed the commission for international affairs and national security.

Ivan Antonovich: went to teach in Moscow

85 years old, he was a minister in the period from 1997 to 1998.

A native of the village of Damashi, Lyakhavitsky district.

He worked at the UN and UNESCO during the Soviet era, and also headed the science department of the CPSU Central Committee.

Towards the end of the USSR, he left for Russia, where he worked at the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU.

After the collapse of the USSR, he received Russian citizenship.

At the same time, he had a good command of the Belarusian language.

Ivan Antonovich, 2016

He returned to Belarus in 1993.

Thus, a person with Russian citizenship was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.

He was sent to resign due to the merger of three ministries into one department - foreign affairs, foreign policy department and CIS affairs.

The informal reason was the scandal with the eviction of Western diplomats from Drozd.

He worked as a teacher in Belarus for a short time, and then went to Moscow again, where he taught at Moscow State University.

He writes books, sometimes shocks the public with his speeches, where he calls Merkel a "slut" and says that he made money by "slandering the United States."

Ural Latypav: worked in business in Russia and Belarus

71 years old, worked as a minister from 1998 to 2000.

Originally from Bashkiria, Tatar by nationality.

He studied in Minsk at the higher courses of the KGB, and stayed in Belarus.

Before being appointed to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was an assistant to Alexander Lukashenko.

Ural Latipov, 2017

"Latypav is one of the main organizers of the anti-constitutional referendum in 1996," political analyst Roman Yakaulevskyi said about the official, naming Latypav among the people who most contributed to the establishment of the regime of personal power in Belarus.

Latipov was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, holding the rank of Deputy Prime Minister, which increased his status.

He was promoted from the ministerial chair and headed the Security Council, then he was the head of the Presidential Administration.

Latipov left the civil service in 2004 and never returned.

He was on the advisory board of the Lukoil-Belarus oil company, which has Russian roots.

Then he went to Moscow, where he headed the Direct Management company, which made money from real estate.

The last known place of work in Belarus is the supervisory board of Alfa-Bank.

Mikhail Khvastov: representative in the USA and Geneva

73 years old, worked as a minister from 2000 to 2003.

He was born in the village of Kazlovshchyna, Pastau district.

Since 1982, he has been working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the BSSR.

He was the head of protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when US President Bill Clinton came to Belarus.

Before being appointed as a minister, he worked as an assistant to Lukashenka, the ambassador of Belarus to Canada, and the deputy minister of foreign affairs.

Mikhail Khvastov, 2017

Khvastov remembered little of his position.

After his resignation, he was sent as the ambassador of Belarus to the USA.

At that time, there was a diplomatic scandal and countries limited their presence to temporary representatives.

Thus, Khvastov was the last full ambassador of Belarus in Washington.

In 2020, Oleg Kravchenko was appointed ambassador, but due to protests in Belarus and his untimely death, he never made it to America.

Before his resignation in 2015, Khvastov was the head of the Belarusian delegation at the UN branch in Geneva.

In his personal life, Mikhail Khvastov experienced a tragedy, the death of his son.

Siarhei Martynov: went into Russian business

69 years old, worked as a minister from 2003 to 2012.

He was born in Gyumra, Armenia, but attended school in Vitebsk.

He studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).

From 1975 he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the BSSR.

Sergey Martynov, 2017

In independent Belarus, he was the country's deputy representative to the UN (1991–1992), temporary chargé d'affaires and ambassador to the USA (1992–1997), first deputy minister of foreign affairs (1997–2001) and ambassador to Belgium (2001–2003).

Martynov was a minister for almost ten years.

Lukashenko said that he himself asked for resignation.

"He is a smart man, his actions did not cause me allergies", - this is how Lukashenka originally said goodbye to his minister.

Martynov was awarded the Order of the Fatherland III degree immediately after his resignation.

Very soon after his dismissal from the state job, Martynov found himself in Russian business: he became the head of the representative office of "Rusneft" (owned by

Mikhail Gutseriev

) in Belarus.

Vladimir Makei: died in office

64 years old, worked as a minister from 2012 to 2022.

He was born in the village of Nekrashevichy, Karelitsky District.

During the Soviet era, he served in intelligence, rose to the rank of colonel.

Since 1993, in the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He worked in the representative office of Belarus in the Council of Europe, was Lukashenka's assistant, head of the presidential administration.

Vladimir Makey, June 2022

The political liberalization of 2015-2020 is associated with the name of Mackay.

Makei lobbied for the introduction of visa-free visits to Belarus by citizens of the European Union, the United States and other countries.

He held days of embroidery in the ministry, reading poems in Belarusian.

In 2020, Makei supported Lukashenka during thousands of protests against election fraud.

Since then, his contacts with European colleagues have become more limited.

At the beginning of 2022, Makei promised that Russian troops would leave Belarus after the exercises and would not threaten Ukraine.

Vladimir Makei died suddenly on November 26.

The cause of the diplomat's death is still unknown.

He was buried on November 29 at the Eastern Cemetery of Minsk.

Who instead?

Among the possible successors of Makei, the names of Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration

Maksim Ryzhankov,

Deputy Ministers

Sergei Aleynik

and

Yuri Ambrazevich

, as well as the representative of Belarus at the UN

Valentin Rybakov

are mentioned most often .