{"id":591618,"date":"2026-10-20T18:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=591618"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:35:16","slug":"rahozhnik-dismissed-as-vitsebsk-regional-governor-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/rahozhnik-dismissed-as-vitsebsk-regional-governor-due-to-illness","title":{"rendered":"Rahozhnik Dismissed as Vitsebsk Regional Governor Due to Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Aliaksandr Rahozhnik<\/strong> has been dismissed as chairman of the Vitsebsk Regional Executive Committee due to illness. <strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> signed the decree today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Siarhei Liaukovich<\/strong>, who previously served as first deputy chairman, has been appointed acting chairman of the regional executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>On Lukashenka&#8217;s instructions, Head of the Presidential Administration <strong>Dzmitry Kruty<\/strong>\u00a0met today with senior officials of the regional executive committee, introduced the acting head of the region and outlined priorities for its development.<\/p>\n<p>Rahozhnik was appointed chairman of the Vitsebsk Regional Executive Committee in January 2026. Lukashenka had demanded a breakthrough from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Rahozhnik has been dismissed as chairman of the Vitsebsk Regional Executive Committee due to illness. Aliaksandr Lukashenka signed the decree today. Siarhei Liaukovich, who previously served as first deputy chairman, has been appointed acting chairman of the regional executive committee. On Lukashenka&#8217;s instructions, Head of the Presidential Administration Dzmitry Kruty\u00a0met today with senior officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad7a65941a8d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Rahozhnik Dismissed as Vitsebsk Regional Governor Due to Illness"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591618","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591619,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591618\/revisions\/591619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}