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Alexander Lukashenko: Deputy: Prime Minister: Salary ~84,000 Belarusian rubles/US$33,600, annually [1] ... Alexander Lukashenko (born 1954) 20 July 1994 Incumbent [a]
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.
Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader.
Lukashenko won 79.65% of the vote (he gained 5,130,557 votes) with 90.65% of the electorate voting. Up to 40,000 people protested against Lukashenko [ 24 ] and about 600 were arrested. [ 6 ] The economic crisis of 2011 meant that the rubel fell considerably during the year and the average salary (in dollars) decreased by 38% between December ...
(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 election that Western ...
MINSK (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was on track to extend his 31-year rule with 87.6% of the vote in a presidential election on Sunday, according to an exit poll broadcast on ...
Incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko had won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being deemed by international monitors as neither free nor fair. [1] Prior to the elections, independent media was closed down or forced to operate from abroad. [2] Aside from Lukashenko, there were four candidates on the ballot.
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.