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'''Alexander Lukashenko''' is the dictator of [[Belarus]] since 1994. During his tenure, he has been admonished by the [[United States]], [[European Union]] and other organizations for suppressing [[democracy]] and trying to re-instill [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] practices on the country. Due to unfair election practices, such as accusations of squashing free press and election rigging, Lukashenko was issued travel bans by the United States and the EU. He has good relationships to [[Russia]], [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Venezuela]]. In 2012 Lukashenko made a law to force people to work.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/05/belarus-ruler-tries-to-solve-economic-problems-by-banning-workers-from-leaving/</ref> After the gay german foreign minister Guido Westerwelle called him an dictator, Lukashenko answered "it is better to be a dictator than gay".<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/05/germany-rebukes-lukashenko-on-remarks-about-gays/</ref>
'''Alexander Lukashenko''' is the dictator of [[Belarus]] since 1994. During his tenure, he has been admonished by the [[United States]], [[European Union]] and other organizations for suppressing [[democracy]] and trying to re-instill [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] practices on the country. Due to unfair election practices, such as accusations of squashing free press and election rigging, Lukashenko was issued travel bans by the United States and the EU.
== Pre-politics ==
== Pre-politics ==
Lukashenko was born in Kopys, a city in the Vitebsk oblast in 1954. After high school, Lukashenko graduated from Mogilev State University and the Belarusian Agricultural Academy and served time with the Soviet Frontier (Border) Guards. <ref>http://www.president.gov.by/en/press10003.html</ref>
Lukashenko was born in Kopys, a city in the Vitebsk oblast in 1954. After high school, Lukashenko graduated from Mogilev State University and the Belarusian Agricultural Academy and served time with the Soviet Frontier (Border) Guards. <ref>http://www.president.gov.by/en/press10003.html</ref>
== Politics ==
Before Lukashenko was the president he was the secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. He said that he was the only member of parliament, who voted against the indepence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. He is still a symphatizer of the USSR. Belarus is the only country which intelligence service uses the name [[KGB]]. In 1994 he was democratic elected as the president of Belarus. In his tenue he started to controll courts, banks and universities and installed a dictatorship. The following elections were forged and opposition groups forbidden and persecuted.<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/node/257729/print</ref> He started to improve the relationships to [[Russia]], [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Venezuela]]. In 2012 Lukashenko made a law to force people to work.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/05/belarus-ruler-tries-to-solve-economic-problems-by-banning-workers-from-leaving/</ref> After the gay german foreign minister Guido Westerwelle called him the "last dictator of europe", Lukashenko answered "it is better to be a dictator than gay".<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/05/germany-rebukes-lukashenko-on-remarks-about-gays/</ref>
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