Gennady Vasilyevich Novitsky ( be, Гена́дзь Васі́левіч Наві́цкі, tr. ''Henadz Vasilevich Navitski'', ; russian: Генна́дий Васи́льевич Нови́цкий, tr. ''Gennadiy Vasilyevich Novitskiy''; born January 2, 1949) is a

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

ian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

, born in

Mogilev Mogilev (russian: Могилёв, Mogilyov, ; yi, מאָלעוו, Molev, ) or Mahilyow ( be, Магілёў, Mahilioŭ, ) is a city in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River, about from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from the bor ...

. He was a

Deputy Prime Minister A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president ...

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

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

Republic of Belarus A republic () is a "state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th ...

. Novitsky served in his Prime Ministerial office under the Presidency of

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (as transliterated from Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лукашенко, Aleksandr Grigoryevich Luk ...

. He held this position from October 2001 until Sergey Sidorsky'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, Navicki held the post of speaker of Council of the Republic of Belarus.

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