File:Alexander_Lukashenko_(14-03-2025)_(3x4_cropped_2).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ2866· pop 156· linked from 2,590 articles

Alexander Lukashenko

Also known as Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, Lukashenko Aleksandr Grigorevich, Alaksandar Łukašenka, Alaksandar Ryhoravič Łukašenka

President of the Republic of Belarus

AI overview

Alexander Lukashenko is the president of Belarus, a country in Eastern Europe that borders Russia, Poland, and other nations. He matters because his leadership and policies significantly influence Belarus's political direction, its relationship with Russia and the West, and the lives of its roughly 9 million citizens.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Film & TV

Acting · Kopys, Belarus

Known for

Парад на Красной площади 9 мая 2025 года2025
The Accidental President — Self2024
Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge — Self (archive footage)2024
Country In Exile — Self (archive footage)2021
Lukashenko. Gold Bottom — Himself2021
Influence — Self - President of Belarus (archive footage)2020
Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship — Self (archive footage)2018
An Ordinary President — Self1996

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Austria
Active from: 1926-06-30
Active to: 2011-02-12

actoraustrianschlager

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 12
Total plays: 20

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,596x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,536x
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,133x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,060x
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,526x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.”
“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.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Official website

Официальный сайт | Официальный интернет-портал Президента Республики Беларусь

Официальный сайт Президента Республики Беларусь содержит оперативную информацию о поездках, встречах, рабочем графике А. Г. Лукашенко, а также официальные документы, указы, новости.

president.gov.by →

Link to the official site · 12,695 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Official website: president.gov.by
Image: Александр Лукашенко (13-04-2023) (cropped).jpg
Height: 182

Show 7 more facts

date of birth: 1954-08-30
name in native language: Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Лукашэнка
nickname: Бацька
P10632: Alexander Lukashenko
Commons category: Alexander Lukashenko
Commons gallery: Александр Лукашенко
ethnic group: Belarusians

Sources (15)

via Wikidata · CC0

~40 min read

Article

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated from Belarusian as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician and statesman who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making him the current longest-tenured European president.

Lukashenko was born in Kopys, and before embarking on his political career, he worked as the director of a state farm (sovkhoz) and served in both the Soviet Border Troops and the Soviet Army. In 1990, Lukashenko was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he assumed the position of head of the interim anti-corruption committee of the Supreme Council of Belarus. In 1994, he won the presidency in the country's inaugural presidential election after the adoption of a new constitution. Lukashenko opposed economic shock therapy during the 1990s post-Soviet transition, maintaining state ownership of key industries in Belarus. His supporters claim this spared Belarus from recessions as devastating as those in other post-Soviet states, whose political structures devolved into oligarchic crony capitalism. Lukashenko's maintenance of the socialist economic model is consistent with the retention of Soviet-era symbolism, including the Russian language, coat of arms, and national flag. These symbols were adopted after a controversial 1995 referendum.