Nationality Belarusian Name Oleg Proleskovsky | Role Belarusian Politician | |
Alma mater Air Defense and Rocket School of the Air Defence Forces Education Belarusian State University | ||
Political party Independent politician | ||
Oleg Vitoldovich Proleskovsky (Belarusian: Алег Вітальдавіч Праляскоўскі Aleg Vitaldavich Pralyaskovski; Russian: Олег ВитольдовичПролесковский Oleg Vitoldovich Proleskovskiy; born 1 October 1963) is a Belarusian politician, and the Minister of Information of Belarus.
He was born into a working-class family in Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad) in the RSFSR. In 1985, he graduated from the Minsk Air Defense and Rocket School of the Air Defence Forces. In 1998, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Belarusian State University. He served in the Soviet Army in East Germany. He held different posts in the Military Academy of Belarus in Minsk from 1990 through 2002.
He headed the Analytical Division of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus and was the Director-General of the Belarusian Telegraph Agency. He was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of the President in 2003, a post he held until 2007. He was the chief of the Main Ideological Administion of the President of Belarus from 2007 to 2008. He was appointed the Director of the Information-Analytical Centre of the Administration of the President of Belarus in 2008, a post he held until 4 December 2009, when he was appointed Minister of Information of Belarus.
Personal life
Oleg Proleskovsky is married, and has two daughters.