The appointments affected the sphere of higher education and the local power vertical. The new officials will head a number of universities. Sergei Kasperovich was appointed rector of the Brest State Technical University. Alexei Chukanov will head the Vitebsk Medical University. Valentin Peshko is now the head of the Grodno Agrarian University. The list of heads of local executive committees has been updated. Parliamentarian Irina Polyakova is now responsible for the Gorodok regional executive committee, and Alexander Sysoev is the head of the administration of the Zheleznodorozhny district of Vitebsk.