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Undated:
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko
(born 30 August 1954) is a
Belarusian
politician serving as
President of Belarus since the office was created on 20 July 1994.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko
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February
20: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has
become Europe’s ultimate deal maker, by trying to keep his options open with the
EU while not letting Russia take him for granted.
Lukashenko compared himself with the U.S. president, with whose authoritarian
populist style he evidently feels an affinity. In one of the more Trumpian
passages, Lukashenko mused, “Yes, [U.S. President Donald Trump] is
inexperienced. Yes, he should be a bit calmer, but that’s just how it looks from
here. . . . I went through all that myself, as a man who rose from outside the
elite. But he has lots of clever people around him! Eighty percent of them are
Jews, and you won’t say that they are stupid.”
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/68054
-- 2018 --
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August 19:
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has fired his Cabinet, emphasizing the
need to strengthen the economy to preserve the nation's post-Soviet
independence.
Lukashenko said he fired Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov's Cabinet for failing to
execute his orders and for paying too little attention to the country's social
needs. He appointed banker Sergei Rumas to succeed Kobyakov.
Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for 24 years, maintaining rigid
Soviet-style controls over economy and showing little tolerance for dissent or
independent media.
He warned Saturday that Belarus will not turn into a "vassal" of its giant
neighbor, Russia, even though he underlined the importance of close ties with
Moscow.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2018-08-19/belarusian-leader-lukashenko-fires-cabinet-as-economy-tanks
August 27:
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that US President
Donald Trump would gain more for the United States if he gave up his sharp
language.
"I think if Trump abandons now this harsh rhetoric and his behavior, he would
have much more to win for the United States," the president told the Belarus 1
broadcaster in an interview.
Lukashenko added that, naturally, many issues were hidden from the public, but
"to wage wars against the whole world, including trade, [was] not the right
way."
https://sputniknews.com/us/201808271067493674-lukashenko-trump-belarus-advice/
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December 14:
Russia offered to resolve economic disputes with Belarus if it agreed to deeper
political integration, stoking suspicions of a Kremlin takeover, Belarusian
President Alexander Lukashenko said.
“I understand those hints: here’s your oil, but you must destroy your country
and join Russia,” Lukashenko told a news conference with Russian journalists in
Minsk on Friday, the Interfax news service
reported. Some officials in Moscow “say directly” that they want to
incorporate Belarus into Russia in return for financial assistance, he said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-14/russia-s-ally-fears-kremlin-takeover-as-oil-cash-shortfall-looms
-- 2019 --
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January 10:
A Diplomatic Breakthrough for Washington in Europe’s Last Dictatorship
Belarus lifts a cap on the number of U.S. diplomats allowed in the
country as Minsk looks west and spars with Moscow.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei informed the U.S. State Department’s
top diplomat on Europe, Wess Mitchell, of the decision in a phone call on
Thursday, according to two diplomatic sources briefed on the matter.
The decision in part reverses a sharp decline in diplomatic relations between
the United States and the authoritarian-style government in Belarus, dating back
to the first years after the Cold War.
“It’s a big step. This is the beginning of a thaw,” said one U.S. official.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/10/diplomatic-breakthrough-for-washington-in-europes-last-dictatorship-belarus-warming-relations-with-west-united-states-lukashenko-putin-russia-dispute-diplomacy-state-department-eastern-europe/
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January 12:
Poland wants a fort with Donald Trump’s
name on it
Critics say it could weaken NATO, or lead to Russian troops in Belarus
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/01/12/poland-wants-a-fort-with-donald-trumps-name-on-it
February
16: Russia May Absorb Belarus: 'We’re Ready to Unite,'
President Says
Putin’s presidential term will end in 2024, and the current constitution
prevents him for running again. It has been suggested that he could bypass these
restrictions by creating a new nation through a union with Belarus.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-belarus-unite-absorb-union-vladimir-putin-alexander-lukashenko-1333800
-- 2020 --
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