Alexander Lukashenko
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Alexander Lukashenko (born 30 August 1954) is the current president of Belarus.
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- 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.
- Statement (August 2003), as quoted in BBC - Profile: Alexander Lukashenko (9 January 2007)
- 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.
- Press conference for Ukrainian journalists (November 2006), as quoted in "Lukashenka Must be Dismissed From Office For Rigging Presidential Elections Results" in Charter97 (23 November 2006)
- 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.
