Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (Belarusian: Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Лукашэнка, IPA: [alʲaˈksandr rɨˈɣoravʲɪtʃ ɫukaˈʂɛnka] Aliaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; Russian: Александр Григорьевич Лукашенко, IPA: [alʲɪˈksandr ɡrʲiˈɡorjɪvʲɪtɕ ɫukaˈʂɛnkə] Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko) (born 30 August 1954) has served as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko served as a military officer and worked as a ...
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Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (Belarusian: Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Лукашэнка, IPA: [alʲaˈksandr rɨˈɣoravʲɪtʃ ɫukaˈʂɛnka] Aliaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; Russian: Александр Григорьевич Лукашенко, IPA: [alʲɪˈksandr ɡrʲiˈɡorjɪvʲɪtɕ ɫukaˈʂɛnkə] Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko) (born 30 August 1954) has served as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko served as a military officer and worked as a director for manufacturing plants and farms. During his first two terms as President, Lukashenko restructured the Belarusian economy by introducing economic integration with the Russian Federation and building strong ties with countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Lukashenko was born on 30 August 1954 in the settlement of Kopys in the Vitebsk voblast of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. It has been alleged in the media that Lukashenko is of Ukrainian origin (his maternal grandfather Trofym Lukashenko was from the Sumy...
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