Aleksey Avramenko Explained

Aleksey Avramenko
Birth Name:Aleksey Nikolaevich Avramenko
Birth Date:1977 5, df=y
Birth Place:Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR
Nationality:Belarusian
Education:Belarusian National Technical University
Academy of Public Administration
Term Start:15 January 2019
Term End:4 July 2023
Successor:Alexey Lyakhnovich

Aleksey Nikolaevich Avramenko (Belarusian: Аляксей Мікалаевіч Аўраменка; 11 May 1977 – 4 July 2023) was a Belarusian politician who served as from 2019 to 2023.[1]

Avramenko was likely responsible for the 23 May 2021 Ryanair Flight 4978 being diverted to Minsk airport as it travelled from Greece to Lithuania, allowing journalist Roman Protasevich to be arrested in Belarus.[2]

Following the Ryanair flight diversion, Avramenko was sanctioned by a number of countries. The diversion was considered a politically motivated decision aimed at arresting and detaining Pratasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega and being a form of repression against civil society and democratic opposition in Belarus.[3]

Avramenko died suddenly on 4 July 2023, at the age of 46.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Указ Президента Республики Беларусь от 15 января 2019 года № 23 «Об А. Н. Авраменко». Pravo.by. Russian.
  2. Web site: Belarusian minister behind plane diversion to arrest opposition journalist mysteriously dies aged 47 . 5 July 2023.
  3. Web site: Alexey Nikolaevich AVRAMENKO . 21 June 2021.
  4. News: 5 July 2023. Умер министр транспорта и коммуникаций Беларуси Алексей Авраменко. Russian. Belarusian Telegraph Agency. 5 July 2023.