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image rank name net worth change age source country/territory industry reference 799 Rinat Akhmetov: $4.0 B $0.00 M | ±0.00% 58 steel, coal Ukraine
Lukashenko and Putin in February 2021. On 23 September 2020, Lukashenko was formally inaugurated president for a sixth term in a ceremony at the Palace of Independence attended by an invited group of 700 guests. [143] On 27 November 2020, Lukashenko announced that he would resign once Belarus' new constitution was adopted. [144]
In the 2022 constitutional referendum, a limit of two terms was reimposed, though only on "newly elected presidents". During the course of the office, elections were held in 1994, 2001, 2006, 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025. Alexander Lukashenko is
On 6 November, the EU imposed sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko and 14 other officials for repression of the pro-democracy movement following August's contested election. Their assets in EU member states were frozen and they are banned from entering EU territory. [50] On the same day, Canada imposed sanctions on 13 Belarusian individuals. [51]
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin backed him in that confrontation and Lukashenko allowed Russia to use its territory as a staging post for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
In the EU Council's decision, [3] Lukashenko has been described as "Businessman, with active participation in financial operations involving the Lukashenka family.” The sanctions were lifted in 2016. [4] On 21 June 2021, Dmitry Lukashenko was again banned from entering the European Union. [5] [6] Switzerland joined the sanctions on 7 July. [7]
The leaders of Russia and Belarus met Monday to discuss ways to further expand their close alliance that has seen the deployment of some of Russia's nuclear weapons on the territory of its neighbor.
(Reuters) - Fifty-five Nobel prize winners have signed an open letter urging Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to free more political prisoners after a human rights group said 18 were ...