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Russia has decided to appoint the Presidential Plenipotentiary Mikhail Babich as Ambassador to Belarus. In 2016, his candidacy was rejected by Ukraine
Russia has asked Belarus for preliminary consent (agrement) to appoint Mikhail Babich , the Russian President's Plenipotentiary Representative in the Volga Federal District, as ambassador. A source close to the Kremlin told RBK about this.
Sources in both houses of parliament confirmed to the publication that Babić's candidacy will be discussed there next week.
RIA Novosti reported on Babich's possible appointment as ambassador to Belarus at the end of June. The Kremlin declined to comment on this information.
An RBC source close to the embassy in Minsk has been informed that the current Russian ambassador to Belarus, Alexander Surikov, will leave his post. Surikov, 77, has headed the Russian embassy in Minsk for 12 years now.
- In the summer of 2016, Russia requested an agrément for the appointment of Mikhail Babich from Ukraine, following the dismissal of Mikhail Zurabov . Kiev refused to accept the new ambassador, stating that the issue was “removed from the agenda.” At the end of 2016, after the assassination of Ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara, Dozhd wrote about the possible appointment of Babich as ambassador to Turkey, but this did not happen.