11 July 2001
Brest Regional Executive Committee to carry out reorganization
Directorate on Information and Social Relations. The latter directorate would become a department subordinate to the Press Directorate. The Trade Directorate would be a unit within the Industry Directorate. Leonid Tsuprik, deputy chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee for
ideology, would be responsible for the matters that are now handled by the Department on Religious and National Affairs. As Aleksandr Koleda, chief of the Organizational and Personnel Department, explained to BelaPAN, "reappointments and internal reshuffle" will take place in July and August. Mr. Koleda said that this was a local initiative and there
had not been any orders from the central government in this regard. "The number of employees will remain the same, as the staff will be neither reduced nor increased," Mr. Koleda added. However, the planned reorganization aroused discontent among workers of the departments that are to be abolished. They insist that the staff will be cut. It is also rumored in Brest that some reshuffle will occur
in the City and Regional Executive Committees. For instance, Georgy Kozel, the local government's business manager, is rumored to replace Gennady Mosko in the post of chairman of the Brest City Executive Committee. Employees of the Regional Executive Committee say that the head of the regional government, Vasily Dolgolyov, may be brought
back to Minsk and Nikolai Gordiyevich, first deputy chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, would take his place. Mr. Koleda did not confirm these rumors. During his recent visit to Brest, Aleksandr Lukashenko said that he did not intend to change the head of the Brest
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