Ivan Karatchenya

Ivan Mikhailovich Korotchenya (Belarusian: Іван Міхайлавіч Каратчэня; Russian: Иван Михайлович Коротченя; born 13 August 1948); is a Belarusian politician who had served as the General Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States from 1993 to 1998, and again in 1999.

He is also a scientist-economist, Doctor of Economics, and Professor. He is an academician of the International Academy of Organizational and Management since 1994, the International Academy of Information, Information Processes and Technology since 1995, and the International Academy of Sciences Higher School since 1997.

Biography

Ivan Korotchenya was born in Tal, Minsk Region on 13 August 1948.

He graduated from the Agricultural College in 1967.

From 1969 to 1975, he worked as the chief agronomist, deputy chairman of the collective farm named after the Belarusian military district of the Lubansky district.

From 1975 to 1976, after his graduation from the Faculty of Agriculture of the Belarusian Agricultural Academy that year, he was the Head of the Lubansky Rhoderstarti.

On 14 May 1993, Korotchenya became the CIS General Sectary. He did a lot to create the structures of the working bodies of the new political education at that time, at the Commonwealth of Independent States.

He is a candidate of Economic Sciences as of 1994, with the topic of the dissertation: "Formation and conditions for the development of the integration economic union of the CIS member states". Some sources claim to Ivan Karatchenya's likely contacts with the world of crime.

Family

He is married, and has two children.