{"id":521313,"date":"2026-02-27T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=521313"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:51:42","slug":"ryzhankou-to-be-removed-from-basketball-federation-leadership-nasha-niva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ryzhankou-to-be-removed-from-basketball-federation-leadership-nasha-niva","title":{"rendered":"Ryzhankou to Be Removed From Basketball Federation Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former handball player and current head of the Belarusian Tennis Federation <b>Siarhei Rutenka<\/b> has been nominated as a candidate for the post of head of the Belarusian Basketball Federation (BBF). Elections for the new head are scheduled for March 13, the BBF press service reported.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the position of head of the Belarusian Basketball Federation is held by Foreign Minister <b>Maksim Ryzhankou<\/b>. As early as last spring, <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> proposed changing the federation\u2019s leadership, saying, <i>\u201cLet him focus on the ministry. And a strong person needs to be found there, someone who will deliver results.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to Lukashenka, Ryzhankou <i>\u201calready has plenty of tasks,\u201d<\/i> while basketball is facing problems.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_521294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521294\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2023-06-27_09-30-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-521294 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2023-06-27_09-30-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2023-06-27_09-30-27.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2023-06-27_09-30-27-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2023-06-27_09-30-27-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2023-06-27_09-30-27-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-521294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siarhei Rutenka. Photo: t.me\/olympicteamby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former handball player and current head of the Belarusian Tennis Federation Siarhei Rutenka has been nominated as a candidate for the post of head of the Belarusian Basketball Federation (BBF). Elections for the new head are scheduled for March 13, the BBF press service reported. At present, the position of head of the Belarusian Basketball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":521312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69a1774214005.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ryzhankou to Be Removed From Basketball Federation Leadership"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}