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Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko [c] (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; [d] born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, [7] making him the current longest-serving European leader.
Following negotiations with Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, [343] Prigozhin agreed to stand down [344] and, late on 24 June, began withdrawing from Rostov-on-Don. [345] On 23 August 2023, exactly two months after the rebellion, Prigozhin was killed along with nine other people when a business jet crashed in Tver Oblast, north of ...
The largest height difference between two presidential candidates (out of the candidates whose heights are known) was in the 1860 election, when Abraham Lincoln stood 12 inches (30 cm) taller than opponent Stephen A. Douglas.
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Nikolai and his father during a dinner with Vladimir Putin, 2021. Lukashenko appeared in public for the first time in 2008. [12] He has attracted significant media attention as his father, President Alexander Lukashenko, has frequently taken him to official ceremonies and state visits, including meetings with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev, Pope Benedict ...
In power since 1994, Lukashenko staged a new crackdown on dissent after stamping out unprecedented demonstrations against what his opponents say was his rigged re-election in 2020.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that the gunmen who attacked Moscow's Crocus City Hall music venue on Friday tried initially to flee to Belarus, not Ukraine as Russian ...
In elections of 2001 and 2006, which were contested by international observers, Western powers and internal opposition parties due for failing to meet democratic and fair standards, [7] the incumbent Lukashenko defeated the other candidates within the first ballot.