Belarus President Biography

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko was born on August 30, he studied at the Alexandrian secondary school, was a member of the Komsomol committee, and headed the political mass sector. In gg. From to August. First, he worked as deputy chairman of the Drumber collective farm in the Shklovsky district of the Mogilev region, then, in the GG, deputy director of the Shklovsky Combine of Building Materials, and after graduating from the Belorussian agricultural order, the second higher education was appointed secretary of the party committee of the collective farm named after Lenin of the Shklovsky district.

From July, this appointment coincided with the beginning of perestroika, and, adapting to economic and ideological changes, the young boss managed to advance, thereby laying the foundation of his future political take -off. Lukashenko turned the unprofitable state farm into an advanced one, after which he began to actively perform, was elected a member of the party district committee and was invited to the city at his state farm Lukashenko organized the district election assembly and was nominated by a candidate for deputies for this district, however, in the election of people's deputies of the USSR in the city of the city.

But next year, in the elections of March 4, A. Lukashenko was elected People's Deputy of the Republic. Lukashenko managed to take advantage of this vague, from a political point of view, to make a dizzying career. He began to actively create a reputation as a folk defender and a fighter with corrupt authorities. Shushkevich, and Kebich called the head of the "pro -Moscow mafia", the commission was liquidated as the "investigation." Shortly before the presidential election, in June, a attempt was made under the Liozo district center on Liozo, which the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Belarus considered a staging.

It is known that in the year he collaborated with the popular movement of Belarus for some time, but in the elections the movement supported Kebich, and Lukashenko acted as an independent candidate. Soon, after the election of Lukashenko, the head of state began his confrontation with parliament. After the second refusal, the deputies said that, according to legal norms, the law comes into force regardless of the presence of the presidential signature.

The conflict continued in February, when Lukashenko announced his intention to hold on the day of the parliamentary elections, May 14, a referendum on issues of giving the Russian language the status of the second state, replacing state symbols, economic integration with Russia and granting the president the right to dissolve the Supreme Council. At the same time, Lukashenko invited the parliament to self -dissolve within a week.

The Supreme Council supported the idea of ​​the referendum itself, but approved only the question of integration with Russia. In response, Lukashenko accused the Armed Forces of violation of the Constitution, deputies have the right only to set a referendum date and threatened to suspend its activities. From the very beginning of his presidency, Lukashenko began to advocate the unification of Belarus and Russia, intercepting the initiative from Kebich, who was trying to play the Eastern Card as early as his election campaign.

Favorable Belarus from an economic point of view, the unification with Russia would allow Lukashenko to give its presidency a new legal basis. As a result of January, the year Lukashenko and Yeltsin signed an agreement on the creation of the customs and payment unions, and on February 21, the contract on friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation for a period of ten years.

Taking a course towards rapprochement with Russia, in August, Lukashenko prohibited the use of history and literature textbooks issued after the acquisition of Belarus of statehood in the year, and in September proclaimed a course to build "market socialism" in the republic. The formal course on the rapprochement of Belarus and Russia was preserved in the year: Lukashenko signed an agreement with Yeltsin on the creation of the community of Belarus and Russia and was elected chairman of the Higher Council of the Community on April 2 of the year.

Then, on November 13, during the illness of Yeltsin, he said from the tribune of the State Duma of the Russian Federation that circumstances left him alone with opponents of the integration of the two countries, and invited deputies and members of the government of the two countries to gather to discuss the issue of complete unification. Lukashenko tried to continue to prevent the chairman of the Belarusian parliament, Semen Sharetsky, but Lukashenko declared the parliament “illegal” and dismissed it.

This event did not make significant changes either in the external or in the domestic political life of the country. At the end of September, Lukashenko and the head of Gazprom Rem Vyakhirev opened the Belarusian segment of the gas pipeline from Russia to Europe, the Gas Topic almost from the very beginning caused the debate of the parties, and subsequently served the soil for a series of scandals.

Otherwise, Lukashenko’s relationship with Russia developed as before. At the same time, the constituent meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, whose chairman was appointed, was appointed President of Belarus. He was again elected head of the republic by a majority vote of 75.65 percent.In the year, Lukashenko proposed leading the allied state alternately, but Putin rejected this initiative, putting forward an integration on the model of the European Union, which did not suit the Belarusian leader.

In the summer of the year, a draft agreement on the introduction of a single currency on the territory of Russia and Belarus was not resolved in Russia and Belarus, and a single ruble was not introduced, and in October Lukashenko said that the introduction of a single currency does not make sense at all. At the same time, on September 19, Lukashenko, together with the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, signed an agreement on the formation of the EEP.

An important milestone in the political biography of Lukashenko was the third, the general public referendum initiated by him, held on October 17, as a result of which a situation was eliminated from the constitution, limiting the two terms for one person to rule the state. In the relationship of Lukashenko and Putin during this period, no significant changes occurred. In August, at a meeting in Sochi, the presidents announced the lack of problems in bilateral relations, but there were no real integration of the two countries again.

The submission of the draft constitutional act of the Union State for consideration by the Supreme Council, which includes the presidents and ministers of Russia and Belarus has repeatedly postponed. Officially, Alexander Lukashenko’s victory in the presidential election of the year was announced on March 23. It was reported that 83 percent of voters voted for him. He is the president of the National Olympic Committee of Belarus from the year, an academician of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences from the year, awarded the Mikhail Sholokhov International Prize "For courageous political journalism and a selfless position in protecting folk interests" in May of the year and the Order of the Rev.

Efrosinia of the 1st degree "for great contributions to the spiritual revival of the spiritual revival people "September 27. Lukashenko was married to Galina Rodionovna Zholnerovich. Zholnerovich lives in the village of Ryzhkovichi, is under constant supervision of security and practically does not communicate with the press at the insistence of her husband. Now he has 3 sons.

Lukashenko gives a lot of time to non -political matters: I am skiing, playing hockey and tennis.