BelNIIDAD released a directory “The organs of state power in the Republic of Belarus” (25 August 1991 – 31 December 2008)

The Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Studies (BelNIIDAD) has released a directory “The organs of state power in the Republic of Belarus” (25 August 1991 – 31 December 2008) in three volumes.

The directory is the first publication in Belarus to systematize the history of the formation and development of the republic-level bodies of state power in sovereign Belarus from 1991 to 2008. The book examines their system, status, powers, functions, procedures of organization, reorganization and liquidation, the evolution of internal organizational structure, etc. Contains information about the term of office of the agency heads.

The book is addressed to the staff of government institutions, state and local archives, institutional archives, scholars, faculty and students, and anyone interested in the history of Belarus.