Markevich Anatoly Mesclavovich Biography

Belarus ”On November 19, Alexander Lukashenko appointed Anatoly Markevich to be the Minister of Culture of Belarus. Earlier, he did not work in this area - he led the district executive committee, headed the Council of Deputies, was an assistant to Lukashenko in the Brest region. With his arrival in culture, cleaning began: dismissal from museums and theaters, the abolition of performances and concerts, the closure of more than 15 cultural sites and riot police at concerts.

Anatoly Markevich. Photo: Kultura. Pushkin and the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus. He began the teacher, then he was a director in several schools of the Grodno region, the chairman of the Korelich district executive committee, headed the Council of Deputies. He led the Novogrudok district executive committee, then he was an assistant to Lukashenko in the Brest region.

And at the age of 49 he became the Minister of Culture. He seemed to come specifically for cleaning in culture, ”recalls Natalya Okkovskaya, who worked as a head of one of the departments in the Ministry of Culture in the year. We knew that there would be a new minister, and we thought, to be honest, that there would be some kind of security official. It was not a security forces, but a man from culture is distant.

The first nickname that he was given is the inspector. Because he used to be an assistant to Lukashenko, an inspector in the Brest region, and now he came and began to inspect everything, as he did in his last work. ” Dismissal according to Okkovskaya, the new minister was aware of “what views” employees adhere to the ministry and in cultural institutions. He already had lists in his hands: surnames and opposite some designations.

He came and began to say that there are no place for employees like me in the ministry.

” After the new minister arrived in cultural institutions, dismissal began. In October, the People’s Artist Zoya Belokhvostik was fired from the Academy of Arts. Prior to this, she, along with another 57 artists, left the Kupalovsky Theater as a sign of solidarity against the dismissal of its director Pavel Latushko. Zoya Belokhvostik. Photo: Facebook. During the protests, the BCB-Flag was raised over the museum.

Klimov led the museum for about 10 years. The plot of the play is about the struggle of the Flemings against Spanish domination in the 16th century. After the premiere, the performance was removed from the shows, and several actors were fired from the troupe. At the beginning of the year, the contract did not extend the contract to the director of the Mogilev Museum of History Alexei Batyukov - in the year he was detained in protests.

In February, at the College of the Ministry of Culture Markevich, he said that the artists have a “second chance” to return to the Belarusian scene: “There are no place on the stage, whether it is a state permit or a concert in the agricultural town. But at the same time, an individual approach is applied to each artist and team who declared the renunciation of the previous views and the desire to work for the good of Belarus.

And if a person sincerely repents in his words, posts, likes and is ready to work for the state and publicly declare his civil position, he is given a second chance. If the words about repentance turn out to be a lie, we part with such people immediately and forever. ” The closure of projects under the new Minister of Culture was stopped by many projects - festivals, cultural spaces, clubs.

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