PERSON: Alexander Lukashenko

Government of the Republic of Belarus

President

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (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, making him the current longest-serving European leader.

Lukashenko was born on 30 August 1954 in the settlement of Kopys in Vitebsk Region of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Starting with an interview given in 2009, Lukashenko has said that his actual birthday is 31 August, the same as his son’s Nikolai’s. This caused some confusion as all official sources had said 30 August 1954 up until then. An explanation was later given that his mother had entered the hospital on the 30th in labour but not given birth until after midnight.

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