The position of the head of the Ministry of Justice turned out to be vacant quite recently, when the head of the department was elected to the upper house of parliament, and now it has become known who his successor as minister is.
Yevgeny Kovalenko, who previously headed the main state Legal Department of the Presidential Administration, became the new Minister of Justice of Belarus.
The decision on his appointment was made by the President of Belarus.
Kovalenko was born on June 26, 1980 in Borzya, Chita region of Russia. He graduated from the Belarusian State University of Economics, Minsk State Linguistic University, and the Academy of Management under the President of Belarus.
The first place of work is the head of production at the Oxygen filling station in Bobruisk. In 2002, he began working at the Ministry of Justice. In this department, in 2009, he reached the post of head of one of the departments.
From 2010 to 2014, he was the head of one of the structures of the Presidential Administration. Then, in 2014-2015, he worked again in the Ministry of Justice as a deputy minister. From 2015 to 2020, he headed the National Center for Legal Information.
Then he became the head of the main state Legal Department of the Presidential Administration. He held this post before being appointed to the post of minister. Before Kovalenko, Sergei Khomenko, a native of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was the Minister of Justice. In April, Khomenko was appointed a member of the Council of the Republic, where he was elected Deputy Speaker.
