Maxim Vladimirovich Ryzhenkov (Russian: Максим Владимирович Рыженков; born 19 June 1972) is a Belarusian politician serving as minister of foreign affairs since 2024.
[1] Ryzhenkov graduated from the Belarusian State University in 1994 and from the Presidential Academy of Public Administration in 2003.
From 2016 to 2024, he served as first deputy head of the presidential administration.
[3] Following the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, Ryzhenkov was added to the various sanctions lists, first by the Baltic states in late August 2020,[4][5] then by the European Union,[6] the United Kingdom,[7] and Canada[8] in June 2021, and shortly thereafter by Switzerland,[9] and several EU-aligned countries.
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