A total of 700 graduates of the Belarusian Military Academy pinned on their lieutenant rank insignia at the graduation ceremony on 26 June. Fifteen of them were awarded the gold medal for academic excellence. Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin congratulated the young officers on graduation and moving into the next phase of their lives.
Viktor Khrenin
State Secretary of the Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich
Chief of the Air Force and Air Defense Command of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Major-General Igor Golub presents diplomas to graduates
Photos by Yegor Pavlyushchik