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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.
By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential ...
Russian soldiers also tried to sell goods to Belarusians via the Internet. [49] On 10 October, Lukashenko ordered Belarusian troops to join Russian troops near Ukraine, claiming Kyiv posed a clear threat to Belarus, [50] and stated "if they touch one metre of our territory then the Crimean Bridge will seem to them like a walk in the park." [51]
Lukashenko, a 70-year-old former Soviet collective farm boss, survived the scare in 2020 in part thanks to his longtime ally Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose support has become existential ...
Russia and Ukraine should negotiate an end to their conflict to avoid the war spilling over into Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Vladimir Putin, said in an interview with ...
Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko meeting with Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, 2022. The Russian military's presence in Belarus has increased greatly in size from its original deployments since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Lukashenko, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said "hotheads" in the West had already heard the nuclear signals being sent by Moscow even before the Kremlin leader announced the changes ...
Meeting of Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin (March 11, 2022) Alexander Lukashenko shows a map at a meeting of the Security Council of Belarus (March 1, 2022) "And now I will show you, where they were preparing the attack on Belarus from" (Russian: А я сейчас вам покажу, откуда на Беларусь готовилось нападение) [a] is a phrase widely ...