Irina Abelskaia

Current assets: Gorizonty Znaniy and the Minsk International Gymnasium established by this company (details of ownership are classified).

Connections: Aleksandr Lukashenko (political patron), Nikolai Lukashenko (younger son), Mikail Gutseriev (sponsor of the gymnasium construction), Dmitri Abelski (older son), Lyudmila Postoyalko (mother, former Minister of Health of Belarus), Dina El-Diefi (daughter-in-law, wife of Dmitri Abelski), Yuliya El Diefi (assistant to Abelskaia in the Council of the Republic).

Privileges: In 1994, Irina Abelskaia began working at the hospital that is now known as the Republican Clinical Medical Centre under the Presidential Administration. She became Aleksandr Lukashenko's personal physician. In 2004, she gave birth to Aleksandr Lukashenko's son, Nikolai Lukashenko. She has headed the Republican Clinical Medical Centre under the Presidential Administration since 2001. The centre provides medical care to the country's top leadership.

In September 2019, Abelskaya founded Gorizonty Znaniy, a company that opened the Minsk International Gymnasium. The school was established in the luxurious Drazdy estate in 2020. Mikail Gutseriev financed its construction and planned to invest approximately $12 million in the project. The private gymnasium also receives government funding.

In 2024, Abelskaia was elected to the Council of the Republic and became Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Education, Science, Culture, and Social Development. Dmitri Abelski, her eldest son, is a beneficiary of the company PharmaScience, which plans to build a $10 million eye drop manufacturing plant in the Great Stone Special Economic Zone. It turned out that Irina Abelskaia's daughter-in-law, Dina Faisal el-Diefi, and Natallia Ivanova, who works at Gorizonty Znaniy, were the only employees of the classified Fond Pervogo foundation, which was established by a personal decree of Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Restrictions: none.