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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 ...
She was born on 1 January 1955 in the family of Rodion Georgievich Zhelnerovich (1928-1983) from Brest and Elena Fedorovna Zhelnerovich (1929-2019) [2] from Slutsk. [3] She met Alexander Lukashenko while still in high school in the village of Ryzhkovichi, and married him in 1975, upon graduation from the Mogilev State Pedagogical Institute (now Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University).
Its first and incumbent officeholder is Galina Lukashenko. Even though she is First Lady, she has not ever operated as one; Galina Lukashenko refused to move to Minsk during the start of her spouse Alexander Lukashenko's presidency and has lived in the village ever since. [2] Despite the separation, an official divorce was never declared.
Lukashenko has been seen on public occasions with various women; when asked about this in the same 2014 interview he explained that he did not want to sit with an official with a "sour face", preferring "My son on one side, and a girl on the other". [282] Lukashenko fathered a son, Nikolai, who was born in 2004.
A Russia-appointed official in Crimea, Nikolai Lukashenko, had earlier acknowledged the strike in the port of Kerch, saying debris from downed Ukrainian missiles had damaged the vessels and ...
Ukraine has vehemently denied involvement but two of Putin's most powerful allies, Security Council chairman Nikolai Patrushev and FSB state sec Lukashenko says concert hall attackers first headed ...
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.
On 2 October, the EU imposed sanctions on 40 Belarusian officials. Lukashenko was exempted from the sanctions as the EU aims to encourage Lukashenko to engage in talks with the opposition. Hours later, Belarus retaliated with sanctions against EU officials. [45] On the same day, the US imposed sanctions on 8 Belarusian individuals. [46]