Mikalai Snapkow

Nikolai Gennadievich Snopkov (; born 14 September 1969), or Mikalay Henadzyevich Snapkow , is a Belarusian politician serving as first deputy prime minister since 2020. From 2009 to 2014, he served as Minister of Economy. He has also served as deputy chairman of the Presidential Administration of Belarus and as the Belarusian ambassador to China.

Biography Snopkov was born on 14 September 1969. In 1986, he started working as a repair shop worker at the state farm "Trastino" in the Khotsimsky district of Mogilev. After graduating from the academy, he worked as an economist at the breeding plant "Lenina", as an economist at a Grodno pig breeding control and testing station, and as a senior economist at the EVSA "Pisarovschchina". From 1992 to 1994 he then worked as an accountant of the districting housing and communal services department for Dribinsky. He was then, from 2000 to 2007, Head of the Financial Department of the Mogilev Regional Executive Committee and in late 2007 became Deputy Chairman of the Mogilev Committee.

On 29 December 2009, he was appointed Minister of Economy in a wave of appointments for minister positions by Alexander Lukashenko. One of his first acts was announcing on 1 July 2010 that Belarus intended to ratify and join the Customs Union of the Eurasian Economic Union, after previous struggles to join because of disagreements over oil products and imported cars between Belarus and other members of the union.