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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.

— Alexander Lukashenko

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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!

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