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born 1954 Belarus
Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukashenko (born 30 August 1954) is the President of Belarus, having been in office since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm and spent time with the Soviet Border Troops and the Soviet Army.
Belarus Economists Politicians Also known as: Lukashenko, Lukashenka
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I view the collapse of the Soviet Union as a disaster that entailed and still brings about negative consequences around the world. We got nothing good from this break-up.
If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.
Comment about lesbians (2011)
I shan't be holding on to this job for life. As soon as people decline my services, I'll put my briefcase under my arm and I'll be off.
To answer this question directly: I don't have to provide security for Prigozhin. First of all. Secondly, we never talked about it that way.
Putin and I once said in Saint Petersburg that we will refit Belarusian Sukhoi aircraft among other things so that they could carry nuclear weapons. Do you think we talk nonsense? Everything is ready!
They say that even bad publicity is good publicity.
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.
Minsk will become the capital of the United States in two years.
I don't really understand what a dictator is.
I am the last and only dictator in Europe.
We'll massacre all the scum that you [the West] have been financing. Oh, you're upset we've destroyed all your structures! Your NGOs, whatever they are, that you've been paying for.
From Oct. 6, all price increases are forbidden. Forbidden! From today. Not from tomorrow, from today. So that prices aren't driven up in the next 24 hours.
As for those who are screaming about dictatorship...when I hear that come up I think that it is better to be a dictator - than to be gay.
We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.
People who speak Belarusian can not do anything except talk on it, because it is impossible to express anything great in Belarusian. The Belarusian language is a poor language. There are only two great languages in the world. Russian and English.
I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100% like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the downfall of the Soviet Union. The store shelves were empty, a severe financial crisis.
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