Lukashenko

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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a<b style="">lexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">or</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><b style="">Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Russian</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span lang="ru" style="">Алекса́ндр Григо́рьевич Лукаше́нко</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><small style="">IPA:&nbsp;</small><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none !important;">[ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ɫʊkɐˈʂɛnkə]</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_language" title="Belarusian language" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Belarusian</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span lang="be" style="">Алякса́ндр Рыго́равіч Лукашэ́нка</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><small style="">IPA:&nbsp;</small><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Belarusian" title="Help:IPA/Belarusian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none !important;">[alʲaˈksand(a)r rɨˈɣɔravʲitʂ lukaˈʂɛnka]</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician, who has served as</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Belarus" title="President of Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">president of Belarus</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">since the establishment of the office</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span class="currentage" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">26 years ago, on 20 July 1994.</span><sup id="cite_ref-worldfactbook_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-worldfactbook-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Before launching his political career, Lukashenko worked as director of a state farm (</span><i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovkhoz" title="Sovkhoz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">sovkhoz</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), and served in the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Border_Troops" title="Soviet Border Troops" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Soviet Border Troops</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and in the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Army" title="Soviet Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Soviet Army</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko opposed&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy(economics)" title="Shock therapy (economics)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economic shock therapy</a>&nbsp;during the post-Soviet transition, which during the 1990s generally spared Belarus from recessions as devastating as those in other&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states" title="Post-Soviet states" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">post-Soviet states</a>&nbsp;like&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_Russian_Federation#Transition_to_market_economy" title="Economic history of the Russian Federation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russia</a>. He has supported&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_ownership" title="State ownership" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">state ownership</a>&nbsp;of key industries in Belarus as well.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko's government has also retained some of the country's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia_for_the_Soviet_Union" title="Nostalgia for the Soviet Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Soviet-era symbolism</a>, which can be seen in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Coat of Arms of Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">coat of arms</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus" title="Flag of Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">national flag</a>&nbsp;of Belarus, adopted following a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Belarusian_referendum" title="1995 Belarusian referendum" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1995 referendum</a>, which were based on the symbols of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Belarusian SSR" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Belarusian SSR</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following the same referendum, Lukashenko was given more power by becoming allowed to dismiss the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Soviet of Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Supreme Soviet of Belarus</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language_in_Belarus" title="Russian language in Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian language was given the same status as Belarusian</a>, and economic ties with Russia were strengthened, which furthermore led to the creation of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State" title="Union State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Union State</a>&nbsp;with Russia, which allows Belarusians to freely travel to, work, and study in Russia, and vice versa.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus-Russia_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Belarus-Russia relations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Relations with Russia</a>&nbsp;have not always ran too smoothly under his tenure either (such as during the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_War" title="Milk War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milk Wars</a>) with Lukashenko occasionally having claimed that Moscow wants to annex Belarus, as late as January 2020<sup id="cite_ref-Lukashenka_Accuses_Moscow_Of_Pressuring_Belarus_Into_Russian_Merger_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-Lukashenka_Accuses_Moscow_Of_Pressuring_Belarus_Into_Russian_Merger-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Lukashenko heads an authoritarian regime in Belarus, and is often referred to by many media outlets as "Europe's last dictator."</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Elections are not considered free and fair by international monitors, opponents of the regime are repressed, and the media are not free. (see&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Belarus" title="Censorship in Belarus" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Censorship in Belarus</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Since 2006, the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">European Union</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;have at times imposed&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_and_organizations_sanctioned_in_relation_to_human_rights_violations_in_Belarus" title="List of people and organizations sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">sanctions on Lukashenko and other Belarusian officials</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;for&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">human rights</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;violations.</span><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The way his government handled the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_pandemic_in_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Coronavirus pandemic in Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Coronavirus pandemic in Belarus</a>&nbsp;has led to widespread public discontent towards his administration. The controversial&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020 Belarusian presidential election</a>&nbsp;has led to many allegations of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_rigging" class="mw-redirect" title="Vote rigging" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">vote rigging</a>, which strongly amplified a pre-existing&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests" title="2020 Belarusian protests" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">wave of protests against his regime.</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of 13 September 2020, he has backed off from his statements made in January of the same year; amid the increasingly hefty protests following the controversial election he is said to discuss plans with the Kremlin to further integrate Belarus with Russia on September 14th.&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the contested presidential election of August 2020, the EU does not recognize him as legitimate president of the Republic of Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Early_life_and_career(1954%E2%80%9394)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;"><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and career (1954–94)</span></span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Military_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Military career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Post-military_career_and_entry_into_politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Post-military career and entry into politics</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#President_of_Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">President of Belarus</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#First_term(1994%E2%80%932001)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">First term (1994–2001)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Second_term(2001%E2%80%932006)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Second term (2001–2006)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Third_term(2006%E2%80%932010)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Third term (2006–2010)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Fourth_term(2010%E2%80%932015)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Fourth term (2010–2015)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Fifth_term(2015%E2%80%932020)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Fifth term (2015–2020)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Sixth_term(2020%E2%80%93present)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Sixth term (2020–present)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Policy</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Domestic_policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.7.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Domestic policy</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Accusation_of_forced_disappearances" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.7.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Accusation of forced disappearances</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Economic_policies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.7.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Economic policies</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Coronavirus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.7.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Coronavirus</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Foreign_policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Foreign policy</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Controversial_statements" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Controversial statements</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Praising_Adolf_Hitler" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Praising Adolf Hitler</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Anti-Semitism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Anti-Semitism</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Homophobia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Homophobia</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Public_opinion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Public opinion</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Family</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Hobbies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Hobbies</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#Orders_and_honors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Orders and honors</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Early_life_and_career.281954.E2.80.9394.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_career(1954–94)">Early life and career (1954–94)</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko was born on 30 August 1954<sup id="cite_ref-udf.by_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-udf.by-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-president.gov.by_26-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-president.gov.by-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup>&nbsp;in the settlement of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopys" title="Kopys" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kopys</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitebsk_Region" title="Vitebsk Region" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vitebsk Oblast</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic</a>. His maternal grandfather, Trokhym Ivanovich Lukashenko, had been born in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumy_Oblast" title="Sumy Oblast" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sumy Oblast</a>&nbsp;of Ukraine near&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shostka" title="Shostka" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shostka</a>&nbsp;(today village of Sobycheve).<sup id="cite_ref-famorigin_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-famorigin-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup>&nbsp;Lukashenko grew up without a father in his childhood, leading him to be taunted by his schoolmates for having an unmarried mother.<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_2008_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-Telegraph_2008-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup>&nbsp;Due to this, the origin of his patronymic&nbsp;<i>Grigorevich</i>&nbsp;is unknown. His mother, Ekaterina Trofimovna Lukashenko (1924–2015), worked as a milkmaid.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko went to Alexandria secondary school. He graduated from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogilev" title="Mogilev" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mogilev</a>&nbsp;Pedagogical Institute (now&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogilev_State_A.Kuleshov_University" title="Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University</a>) in 1975, after 4 years studying there and the Belarusian Agricultural Academy in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horki" title="Horki" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Horki</a>&nbsp;in 1985.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Military_career"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Military career</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He served in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_Border_Troops" class="mw-redirect" title="USSR Border Troops" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Border Guard</a>&nbsp;(frontier troops) from 1975 to 1977, where he was an instructor of the political department of military unit No. 2187 of the Western Frontier District in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brest,Belarus" title="Brest, Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brest</a>&nbsp;and in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Army" title="Soviet Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Soviet Army</a>&nbsp;from 1980 to 1982. In addition, he led an All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol" title="Komsomol" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Komsomol</a>) chapter in Mogilev from 1977 to 1978. While in the Soviet Army, Lukashenko was a deputy political officer of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120th_Guards_Mechanised_Brigade" title="120th Guards Mechanised Brigade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">120th Guards Motor Rifle Division</a>, which was based in Minsk.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_30-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-bio-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup>&nbsp;He later rejoined as a tank specialist.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Post-military_career_and_entry_into_politics"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Post-military career and entry into politics</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1979, he joined the ranks of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CPSU</a>. After leaving the military, he became the deputy chairman of a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkhoz" title="Kolkhoz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">collective farm</a>&nbsp;in 1982 and in 1985, he was promoted to the post of director of the Gorodets&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovkhoz" title="Sovkhoz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">state farm</a>&nbsp;and construction materials plant in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shklow" title="Shklow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shkloŭ</a>&nbsp;district.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 1987, he was appointed as the director of the Gorodets state farm in Shkloŭ district and in early 1988, was one of the first in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogilev_Region" title="Mogilev Region" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mogilev Region</a>&nbsp;to introduce a leasing contract to a state farm.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1990, Lukashenko was elected Deputy to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus. Having acquired a reputation as an eloquent opponent of corruption, Lukashenko was elected in April 1993 to serve as the interim chairman of the anti-corruption committee of the Belarusian parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_33-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-nytimes-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup>&nbsp;In late 1993 he accused 70 senior government officials, including the Supreme Soviet chairman&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Shushkevich" title="Stanislav Shushkevich" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stanislav Shushkevich</a>&nbsp;and prime minister&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Kebich" title="Vyacheslav Kebich" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vyacheslav Kebich</a>, of corruption including stealing state funds for personal purposes. While the charges ultimately proved to be without merit, Shushkevich resigned his chairmanship due to the embarrassment of this series of events and losing a vote of no-confidence.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jeffries04_35-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-Jeffries04-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup>&nbsp;He served in that position until July 1994.</font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="President_of_Belarus"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President of Belarus</font></span></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="First_term.281994.E2.80.932001.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="First_term(1994–2001)">First term (1994–2001)</span></span></font></h3><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Fifth_term(2015–2020)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fifth term (2015–2020)</font></span></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2015 Belarusian presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2015 Belarusian presidential election</a></font></div><div class="thumb tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prime_Minister_Narendra_Modi_during_a_bilateral_meeting_with_President_of_Belarus_Alexander_Lukashenko.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prime_Minister_Narendra_Modi_during_a_bilateral_meeting_with_President_of_Belarus_Alexander_Lukashenko.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko during a bilateral meeting with&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indian</a>&nbsp;Prime Minister&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Narendra Modi</a>&nbsp;in June 2016</font></div></div></div><div class="thumb tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meeting_of_CIS_Council_of_Heads_of_State(2016-09-16)03.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meeting_of_CIS_Council_of_Heads_of_State(2016-09-16)03.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meeting of&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CIS</a>&nbsp;leaders in Bishkek,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kyrgyzstan</a>, September 2016</font></div></div></div><div class="thumb tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lukashenko_and_Zelenskyi(Oct_2019).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lukashenko_and_Zelenskyi(Oct_2019).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelensky" title="Volodymyr Zelensky" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Volodymyr Zelensky</a>&nbsp;shaking hands with Lukashenko in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhytomyr" title="Zhytomyr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Zhytomyr</a>, October 2019.</font></font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On 11 October 2015, Lukashenko was elected for his fifth term as the President of Belarus. Just over three weeks later, he was&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_inauguration_of_Alexander_Lukashenko" title="Fifth inauguration of Alexander Lukashenko" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">inaugurated</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Palace,Minsk" title="Independence Palace, Minsk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Independence Palace</a>&nbsp;in the presence of attendees such as former&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President of Ukraine</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kuchma" title="Leonid Kuchma" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Leonid Kuchma</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Communist Party of the Russian Federation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chairman of the Russian Communist Party</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Zyuganov" title="Gennady Zyuganov" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gennady Zyuganov</a>&nbsp;and Belarusian&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon" title="Biathlon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">biathlete</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darya_Domracheva" title="Darya Domracheva" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Darya Domracheva</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fox61115_104-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-fox61115-104" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[104]</a></sup>&nbsp;On mid-September 2017, Lukashenko oversaw the advancement of joint Russian and Belarusian military relations during the military drills that were part of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapad_2017_exercise" title="Zapad 2017 exercise" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Zapad 2017 exercise</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-105" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[105]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-106" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[106]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August 2018, Lukashenko fired his prime minister&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Kobyakov" title="Andrei Kobyakov" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Andrei Kobyakov</a>&nbsp;and various other officials due to a corruption scandal.<sup id="cite_ref-afp2018_107-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-afp2018-107" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[107]</a></sup>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syarhey_Rumas" title="Syarhey Rumas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sergei Rumas</a>&nbsp;was appointed to take his place as prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-afp2018_107-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-afp2018-107" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[107]</a></sup>&nbsp;In May 2017, Lukashenko signed a decree on the Foundation of the Directorate of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Games" title="2019 European Games" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2019 European Games</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minsk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DIRECT_108-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-DIRECT-108" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[108]</a></sup>&nbsp;In April 2019, Lukashenko announced that the games were on budget and on time and eventually he opened the 2nd edition of the event on 21 June.<sup id="cite_ref-o_109-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-o-109" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[109]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TRT_110-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-TRT-110" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[110]</a></sup>&nbsp;Between 1–3 July 2019, he oversaw the country's celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_Offensive" title="Minsk Offensive" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minsk Offensive</a>, which culminated in an evening&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_Independence_Day_Parade" title="Minsk Independence Day Parade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">military parade</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Belarus" title="Armed Forces of Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Armed Forces of Belarus</a>&nbsp;on the last day, which is the country's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day(Belarus)" title="Independence Day (Belarus)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Independence Day</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-news.tut.by_111-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-news.tut.by-111" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[111]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August 2019, Lukashenko met with former Kyrgyz President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurmanbek_Bakiyev" title="Kurmanbek Bakiyev" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kurmanbek Bakiyev</a>, who has lived in exile in Minsk since 2010, in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Palace,Minsk" title="Independence Palace, Minsk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Palace of Independence</a>&nbsp;to mark Bakiyev's 70th birthday, which he had marked several days earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-112" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[112]</a></sup>&nbsp;The meeting, which included the presentation of traditional flowers and symbolic gifts, angered the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs(Kyrgyzstan)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kyrgyzstan)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry</a>&nbsp;which stated that the meeting "fundamentally does not meet the principles of friendship and cooperation between the two countries".<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-113" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[113]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-114" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[114]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-115" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[115]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-116" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[116]</a></sup>&nbsp;On 29 August,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R.Bolton" class="mw-redirect" title="John R. Bolton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Bolton</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Advisor(United_States)" title="National Security Advisor (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Security Advisor of the United States</a>, was received by Lukashenko during his visit to Minsk, which was the first of its kind in 18 years.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-117" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[117]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-118" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[118]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-119" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[119]</a></sup>&nbsp;In November 2019, Lukashenko visited the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" title="Austria" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Austrian</a>&nbsp;capital of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vienna</a>&nbsp;on a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_visit" title="State visit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">state visit</a>, which was his first in three years to an EU country. During the visit, he met with President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Van_der_Bellen" title="Alexander Van der Bellen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alexander Van der Bellen</a>, Chancellor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bierlein" title="Brigitte Bierlein" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brigitte Bierlein</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_National_Council(Austria)" title="President of the National Council (Austria)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Council President</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sobotka" title="Wolfgang Sobotka" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wolfgang Sobotka</a>. He also paid his respects at the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial(Vienna)" title="Soviet War Memorial (Vienna)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Soviet War Memorial</a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenbergplatz" title="Schwarzenbergplatz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Schwarzenbergplatz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-120" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[120]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-121" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[121]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-122" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[122]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the course of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Europe" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Europe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, he undertook two working visits to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russia</a>, one of the few European leaders to undertake foreign visits during the pandemic. He also received Hungarian Prime Minister&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n" title="Viktor Orbán" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Viktor Orbán</a>&nbsp;during his&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_visit" title="State visit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">state visit</a>&nbsp;to Minsk.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-123" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[123]</a></sup>&nbsp;Orbán called for an end to EU sanctions on Belarus during this visit.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-124" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[124]</a></sup>&nbsp;His first visit to Russia was to attend the rescheduled&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Moscow_Victory_Day_Parade" title="2020 Moscow Victory Day Parade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Moscow Victory Day Parade</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Square" title="Red Square" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Red Square</a>&nbsp;together with his son.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-125" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[125]</a></sup></font></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Sixth_term.282020.E2.80.93present.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sixth_term(2020–present)">Sixth term (2020–present)</span></span></font></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Main articles:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020 Belarusian presidential election</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests" title="2020 Belarusian protests" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020 Belarusian protests</a></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On 9 August 2020, according to the preliminary count, Lukashenko was elected for his sixth term as the President of Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-126" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[126]</a></sup>&nbsp;US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that the election was "not free and fair".<sup id="cite_ref-thehill_127-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-thehill-127" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[127]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests" title="2020 Belarusian protests" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mass protests</a>&nbsp;erupted across Belarus following the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020 Belarusian presidential election</a>&nbsp;which was marred by allegations of widespread&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">electoral fraud</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Belarus_election_notdemo_128-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-Belarus_election_notdemo-128" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[128]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-atlanticcouncil_about_elections_129-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-atlanticcouncil_about_elections-129" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[129]</a></sup>&nbsp;Subsequently, opposition presidential candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatlana_Tsikhanouskaya" title="Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya</a>&nbsp;claimed she had received between 60 and 70% of the vote<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-130" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[130]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-victory_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-victory-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;and formed a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_Council_for_the_Transfer_of_Power_in_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Coordination Council for the Transfer of Power in Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Coordination council</a>&nbsp;to facilitate the peaceful and orderly transfer of power in Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-131" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[131]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-132" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[132]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On 15 August 2020,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs(Lithuania)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lithuania)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lithuanian Foreign Minister</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linas_Antanas_Linkevi%C4%8Dius" title="Linas Antanas Linkevičius" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Linas Linkevicius</a>&nbsp;referred to Lukashenko as the "former president" of Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-133" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[133]</a></sup>&nbsp;It was reported that President Lukashenko's authorities asked&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin" class="mw-redirect" title="Kremlin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kremlin</a>&nbsp;representatives about the possibility of Lukashenko escaping to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russia</a>. Furthermore, it was reported that Russia admits that Lukashenko's resignation from the post of head of state is likely.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-134" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[134]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-135" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[135]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On 17 August the members of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">European Parliament</a>&nbsp;issued a joint statement which stated that they do not recognise Alexander Lukashenko as the president of Belarus, considering him to be&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_non_grata" title="Persona non grata" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">persona non grata</a></i>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">European Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-136" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[136]</a></sup>&nbsp;On 19 August, the member states of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">European Union</a>&nbsp;agreed to not recognise the results and issued a statement saying "The 9 August elections were neither free nor fair, therefore we do not recognise the results".<sup id="cite_ref-EU198_137-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-EU198-137" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[137]</a></sup>&nbsp;The governments of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United Kingdom</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Canada</a>&nbsp;have also refused to recognise the results. In an interview on 22 August, Josep Borrell explicitly stated that the European Union does not recognise Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus in the same manner that it does not recognise&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nicolás Maduro</a>&nbsp;as the legitimate president of Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-138" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[138]</a></sup></font></font></p><table class="box-Undue_weight plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-undue-weight" role="presentation" style="margin: 0px 104.137px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="Unbalanced scales" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ambox_scales.svg/50px-Ambox_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ambox_scales.svg/75px-Ambox_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ambox_scales.svg/100px-Ambox_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></font></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 744.4px;"><div class="mbox-text-span">
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255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On 23 August footage emerged showing Lukashenko at the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Palace,Minsk" title="Independence Palace, Minsk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Independence Palace</a>&nbsp;in Minsk. In the first two videos, he is seen walking near a helicopter, wearing a bullet proof vest and holding a machine gun&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-139" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[139]</a></sup>&nbsp;and then walking around the palace grounds. In the latter footage, Lukashenko was heard to say "Leave me alone," and "There is no one left there, right?". His 15-year-old son, Nikolai, was seen with him dressed in military uniform and holding a gun.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-140" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[140]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-141" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[141]</a></sup>&nbsp;In a third video, he is seen surveying protestors from a helicopter and is heard saying "How the rats ran away" in an apparent reference to the protesters. In a fourth video, Lukashenko was seen removing the former flag of Belarus from a flower bed, waving at security personnel and in reference to protesters, saying "we will deal with them".<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-142" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[142]</a></sup>&nbsp;On 30 August the Independence Palace became again a scene of protests. When questioned about the whereabouts of Alexander Lukashenko on this day, his publicity team released an undated photograph of him walking around the grounds of the Independence Palace holding a gun.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-143" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[143]</a></sup></font></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Policy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Policy</font></span></font></h3><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Domestic_policy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Domestic policy</font></span></font></h4><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">See also:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Belarus" title="Human rights in Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Human rights in Belarus</a></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
With the ascent to power of Lukashenko in 1994, the</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Belarus" title="Russification of Belarus" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" none="none" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line">Russification policy</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">of Russian Imperial and Soviet era was renewed.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Smok_149-0" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-Smok-149" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[149]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-150" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[150]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-151" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[151]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-152" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[152]</a></sup><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko promotes himself as a "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man_of_the_people" class="extiw" title="wikt:man of the people" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">man of the people</a>." He was elected chairman of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Olympic_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Belarusian Olympic Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Belarusian Olympic Committee</a>&nbsp;in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-144" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[144]</a></sup>&nbsp;Lukashenko wanted to rebuild Belarus when he took office;<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-145" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[145]</a></sup>&nbsp;the economy was in freefall due to declining industry and lack of demand for Belarusian goods.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-146" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[146]</a></sup>&nbsp;Lukashenko kept many industries under the control of the government.<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-147" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[147]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2001, he stated his intention to improve the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_welfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Social welfare" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">social welfare</a>&nbsp;of his citizens and to make Belarus "powerful and prosperous."<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-148" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[148]</a></sup></font></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Accusation_of_forced_disappearances"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Accusation of forced disappearances</font></span></font></h4><div class="thumb tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Znikn%C4%85%C4%87_03-Czarownik_ci%C4%85gnie_za_uszy.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></font></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Znikn%C4%85%C4%87_03-Czarownik_ci%C4%85gnie_za_uszy.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Demonstration in&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Warsaw</a>, reminding about the disappearances of oppositionals in Belarus</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1999 opposition leaders&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Zacharanka" title="Yury Zacharanka" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Yury Zacharanka</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktar_Hanchar" title="Viktar Hanchar" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Viktar Hanchar</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;together with his business associate&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anatol_Krasouski&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anatol Krasouski (page does not exist)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Anatol Krasouski</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;disappeared. Hanchar and Krasouski disappeared the same day of a broadcast on state television in which</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> President Alexander Lukashenko ordered the chiefs of his security services to crack down on "opposition scum."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Although the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Committee_of_the_Republic_of_Belarus" title="State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;(KGB) had them under constant surveillance, the official investigation announced that the case could not be solved. The investigation of the disappearance of journalist&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzmitry_Zavadski" title="Dzmitry Zavadski" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Dzmitry Zavadski</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in 2000 has also yielded no results. Copies of a report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which linked senior Belarusian officials to the cases of disappearances, were confiscated.</span><sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-153" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[153]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In September 2004, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">European Union</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States</a>&nbsp;issued travel bans for five Belarusian officials suspected in being involved in the kidnapping of Zacharanka: Interior Affairs Minister&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir_V.Naumov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vladimir V. Naumov (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vladimir Naumov</a>, Prosecutor General&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Sheiman" title="Viktor Sheiman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Viktor Sheiman</a>, Minister for Sports and Tourism&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yuri_Sivakov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yuri Sivakov (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yuri Sivakov</a>, and Colonel&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Pavlichenko" title="Dmitri Pavlichenko" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dmitri Pavlichenko</a>&nbsp;from the Belarus Interior Ministry.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-154" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[154]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December 2019,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Deutsche Welle</a>&nbsp;published a documentary film in which Yury Garavski, a former member of a special unit of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs(Belarus)" title="Ministry of Internal Affairs (Belarus)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs</a>, confirmed that it was his unit which had arrested, taken away and murdered Zecharanka and that they later did the same with Viktar Hanchar and Anatol Krassouski.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-155" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[155]</a></sup></font></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Economic_policies"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Economic policies</font></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko's early economic policies aimed to prevent issues that occurred in other&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states" title="Post-Soviet states" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">post-Soviet states</a>, such as the establishment of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">oligarchic</a>&nbsp;structures and mass unemployment.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-156" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[156]</a></sup>&nbsp;The unemployment rate for the country at the end of 2011 was at 0.6% of the population (of 6.86&nbsp;million eligible workers), a decrease from 1995, when unemployment was 2.9% with a working-eligible population of 5.24&nbsp;million.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-157" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[157]</a></sup>&nbsp;The per-capita&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_income" title="Gross national income" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gross national income</a>&nbsp;rose from US$1,423 in 1993 to US$5,830 at the end of 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-158" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[158]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One major economic issue Lukashenko faced throughout his presidency was the value of the Belarusian ruble. For a time it was&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_exchange-rate_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Fixed exchange-rate system" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pegged</a>&nbsp;to major foreign currencies, such as the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" title="Euro" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">euro</a>, US dollar and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_ruble" title="Russian ruble" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian ruble</a>&nbsp;in order to maintain the stability of the Belarusian ruble.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-159" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[159]</a></sup>&nbsp;Yet, the currency has experienced several periods of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devaluation" title="Devaluation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">devaluation</a>. A major devaluation took place in 2011 after the government announced that average salaries would increase to US$500.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="Relative to what and why is this relevant to a biographical entry rather than the country page (July 2019)">further explanation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-160" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[160]</a></sup>&nbsp;The 2011 devaluation was the largest on record for the past twenty years according to the World Bank.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-161" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[161]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Belarus also had to seek a bailout from international sources and, although it has received loans from China, loans from the IMF and other agencies depend on how Belarus reforms its economy.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-162" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[162]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-163" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[163]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some critics of Lukashenko, including the opposition group&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubr(political_organization)" title="Zubr (political organization)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Zubr</a>, use the term&nbsp;<i>Lukashism</i>&nbsp;to refer to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_system" title="Political system" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_system" title="Economic system" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economic system</a>&nbsp;Lukashenko has implemented in Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-164" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[164]</a></sup>&nbsp;The term is also used more broadly to refer to an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritarian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">authoritarian</a>&nbsp;ideology based on a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cult of his personality</a>&nbsp;and nostalgia for Soviet times among certain groups in Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[165]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-166" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[166]</a></sup>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US Congress</a>&nbsp;sought to aid the opposition groups by passing the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus_Democracy_Act_of_2004" title="Belarus Democracy Act of 2004" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Belarus Democracy Act of 2004</a>&nbsp;to introduce sanctions against Lukashenko's government and provide financial and other support to the opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-white_house_167-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-white_house-167" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[167]</a></sup>&nbsp;Lukashenko supporters argue that his rule spared Belarus the turmoil that beset many other former Soviet countries.<sup id="cite_ref-BelarusNewsAnalysis_168-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-BelarusNewsAnalysis-168" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[168]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-169" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[169]</a></sup>&nbsp;Lukashenko commented on the criticism of him by saying: "I've been hearing these accusations for over 10&nbsp;years and we have got used to it. We are not going to answer them. I want to come from the premise that the elections in Belarus are held for ourselves. I am sure that it is the Belarusian people who are the masters in our state."<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-170" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[170]</a></sup></font></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Coronavirus"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coronavirus</font></span></font></h4><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Belarus" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus</a></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, Lukashenko stated that concerns about the pandemic were a "frenzy and a psychosis" and that working the tractors, drinking vodka and going to saunas could prevent people from infection from the virus. "People are working in tractors. No one is talking about the virus", Lukashenko said on 16 March 2020. "There, the tractor will heal everyone. The fields heal everyone". He also said: "I don’t drink, but recently I’ve been saying that people should not only wash their hands with vodka, but also poison the virus with it. You should drink the equivalent of 40–50 milliliters of rectified spirit daily", but he advised against doing so while at work.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-171" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[171]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-172" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[172]</a></sup>&nbsp;By early May, Belarus was reported to have 15,000 diagnosed cases, one of the highest per capita rates of infection in Eastern Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-173" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[173]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On 28 July, Lukashenko announced he had asymptomatic COVID-19.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-174" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[174]</a></sup>&nbsp;Neither the Presidential Administration nor the country's health service have commented on this inadvertent statement.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-175" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[175]</a></sup></font></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Foreign_policy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Foreign policy</font></span></font></h3><div class="thumb tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_14_May_2002-8.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></font></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_14_May_2002-8.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With Russian President&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vladimir Putin</a>&nbsp;during a news conference in 2002</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko's relationship with the EU has been strained, in part by choice and in part by his policies towards domestic opponents. Lukashenko's repression of opponents caused him to be called "Europe's last dictator" and resulted in the EU imposing visa sanctions on him and a range of Belarusian officials. At times, the EU has lifted sanctions as a way to encourage dialogue or gain concessions from Lukashenko.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-176" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[176]</a></sup>&nbsp;Since the EU adopted this policy of "change through engagement", it has supported economic and political reforms to help integrate the Belarusian state.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko#cite_note-177" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[177]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">....</font></font></p></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GUBAREV’S WORLD</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even before the Steele dossier, a 2014 lawsuit filed against Gubarev’s company in Florida opened a window on how readily associates can become adversaries in the post-Soviet business world.</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The suit, dismissed last year, was filed by Depicto Commercial Ltd., a little-known company registered in the British Virgin Islands. The company contended that it lent $627,000 to Gubarev’s business and that he failed to repay as agreed; Gubarev’s side contended it repaid what was owed.</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit identifies Depicto Commercial’s principal figure as<b>&nbsp;Victor Lukashenko,</b>&nbsp;a Belarusian digital services businessman.</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lukashenko spent time in prison in 2010-2012 in that former Soviet republic, according to his lawyer, Rolandas Tilindis. He said Lukashenko, who is now in hiding, was accused of improperly exchanging cryptocurrency for real money as a service to customers, not realizing the currency was the product of fraud.</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gurvitz, Gubarev’s lawyer, said his client “had absolutely no relationship” with Lukashenko beyond the loan.</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Depicto Commercial lawsuit gives little detail about that company. However, a company with that name has been identified in previously leaked corporate documents from the Bahamas, with a director named Emilios Hadjivangeli.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hadjivangeli runs a corporate services business in Cyprus, Gubarev’s home and a haven for well-to-do Russians and their money.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hadjivangeli has been listed as an official for hundreds of companies. Many appear to be so-called<b>&nbsp;shell companies,</b>&nbsp;where wealthy Russians and others often list intermediary strawmen as executives to hide the actual ownership.</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hadjivangeli did not respond to messages seeking comment.</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gurvitz said that his client has never heard of Hadjivangeli and that there is no reason to believe that he or Lukashenko was involved in any way with the Steele dossier.</font></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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