{{short description|Belarusian politician (born 1974)}} {{use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ivan Krupko | native_name = {{No bold|Иван Крупко}} | native_name_lang = be | image = Иван Крупко.jpg | caption = Krupko in 2020 | office = Governor of the Gomel Region | president = Alexander Lukashenko | term_start = 21 December 2021 | term_end = | predecessor = Gennady Solovey | successor = | office1 = Minister of Agriculture | president1 = Alexander Lukashenko | prime_minister1 = Syarhey Rumas<br/>Roman Golovchenko | term_start1 = 16 March 2020 | term_end1 = 21 December 2021 | predecessor1 = Anatoly Khotko | successor1 = Igor Brylo | party = | other_party = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|23 July 1974|df=yes}} | birth_place = }}
'''Ivan Ivanovich Krupko''' ({{langx|ru|Иван Иванович Крупко}}; born 23 July 1974) is a Belarusian politician serving as governor of the Gomel Region since 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://belta.by/president/view/lukashenko-prinjal-reshenie-naznachit-karanika-gubernatorom-grodnenskoj-oblasti-oblastnye-deputaty-403774-2020/|title=Крупко назначен председателем Гомельского облисполкома|publisher=Belarusian Telegraph Agency|date=21 December 2021|language=ru}}</ref> From March 2018 to his appointment as Minister of Agriculture, he was Chairman of the Minsk District Executive Committee.<ref name="agro">{{cite news |title=Лукашенко назначил нового министра сельского хозяйства |url=https://agronews.com/by/ru/news/agrosfera/2020-03-16/43204?ysclid=m8xsiqzq59684756661 |access-date=1 April 2025 |work=Agro News |date=6 February 2025 |language=ru}}</ref> Then, from 2020 to 2021, he served as Minister of Agriculture.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsgomel.by/archive_news/politics/ivan-krupko-naznachen-predsedatelem-gomelskogo-oblispolkoma_72420.html|title=Иван Крупко назначен председателем Гомельского облисполкома. Что известно о новом губернаторе|work=Gomelskie Vedomosti|date=21 December 2021|language=ru}}</ref> Upon appointment Krupko minister, Alexander Lukashenko explained his reasoning as needing a more experienced manager, which he expected from Krupko as he had led the Minsk district formerly.<ref>{{cite news |title=Министром сельского хозяйства и продовольствия назначен Иван Крупко |url=https://www.belta.by/president/view/ministrom-selskogo-hozjajstva-i-prodovolstvija-naznachen-ivan-krupko-383440-2020 |access-date=1 April 2025 |work=BELTA |date=12 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412215650/https://www.belta.by/president/view/ministrom-selskogo-hozjajstva-i-prodovolstvija-naznachen-ivan-krupko-383440-2020 |archive-date=12 April 2020 }}</ref>
Due to his support of Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since 2022 Krupko has been under multiple international sanctions by the European Union and other countries for "threatening the territorial integrity" of Ukraine.
== Early life == Krupko was born on 23 July 1974 in Burdevichi, a village in the Grodno Region, when was then part of the Byelorussian SSR.<ref>{{cite web |title=Иван Крупко назначен председателем Гомельского областного исполнительного комитета |url=https://gp.by/novosti/obshchestvo/news242543.html?ysclid=m8xsac093u468041236 |website=Информационный портал |access-date=1 April 2025 |language=ru}}</ref> From 1993 to 1995 he served in the Armed Forces of Belarus, and in 1998 he graduated from Grodno State Agrarian University after an interrupted study.<ref>{{cite web |title=Крупко Иван Иванович |url=http://www.mshp.gov.by/about/minister |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604083028/http://www.mshp.gov.by/about/minister |archive-date=4 June 2020 }}</ref> After graduated he worked as chief livestock technician of the collective farm "Rassvet" in the Nesvizh district until 2002, and then until 2006 he then headed the Head of the Department of Production and Processing of Products of the Department of Agriculture and Food of the Nesvizh District.<ref>{{cite news |title=Иван Крупко назначен председателем Гомельского облисполкома. Что известно о новом губернаторе |url=https://newsgomel.by/archive_news/politics/ivan-krupko-naznachen-predsedatelem-gomelskogo-oblispolkoma_72420.html?ysclid=m8xsf1umsv558682783 |access-date=1 April 2025 |work=Новости Гомеля |date=21 December 2021 |language=ru}}</ref> In 2007 he graduated the Academy of Public Administration.<ref name="agro" />
== International sanctions == Since 25 February 2022, he has been under sanctions by the European Union for his role in support of Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ivan Ivanovich KRUPKO |url=https://data.europa.eu/apps/eusanctionstracker/subjects/135904 |website=data.europa.eu |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref> On 15 March 2022, he was officially sanctioned by the United Kingdom, also for his role in "threatening the territorial integrity" of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |title=CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1107651/Russia.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930073607/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1107651/Russia.pdf |access-date=1 April 2025 |archive-date=30 September 2022 }}</ref> Later that year he was added to the sanctions lists of Ukraine itself<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/ru/sanction-person/342 |title=КРУПКО Иван Иванович |access-date=2022-12-28 |archive-date=2022-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126140748/https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/ru/sanction-person/342/ |url-status=dead |language=ru }}</ref> and of Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2022/2022-12-07/html/sor-dors240-eng.html|title=Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Belarus) Regulations: SOR/2022-240|work=Canada Gazette|date=2022-12-07|access-date=2023-04-10}}</ref>
== Honours == * Medal for Labour Merit (December 2016)<ref>{{cite web |title=Указ Президента Республики Беларусь от 24.11.2016 г. № 427 «Аб узнагароджанні» – Pravo.by |url=https://pravo.by/document/?guid=12551&p0=P31600427&p1=1&p5=0 |website=pravo.by |access-date=1 April 2025 |language=ru}}</ref> * Order of Friendship of Peoples (Bryansk Oblast, Russia; January 2024)<ref>{{cite news |title=Губернатор Александр Богомаз наградил председателя Гомельского облисполкома Ивана Крупко орденом Дружбы народов |url=https://xn----8sbbc6addec3arqfj2hrf.xn--p1ai/news/gubernator_aleksandr_bogomaz_nagradil_predsedatelya_gomelskogo_oblispolkoma_ivana_krupko_ordenom_drujbyi_narodov_16437.html |access-date=1 April 2025 |work=Брянский рабочий |date=13 January 2024}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}}
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