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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 ==

== Politics ==

Before Lukashenko was the president of Belarus, 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 sympathizer of the USSR. Belarus is the only country whose intelligence service uses the name [[KGB]]. In 1994 he was democratically elected as the president of Belarus. In his tenure he started to control courts, banks and universities, installed a dictatorship and started to improve the relationships with [[Russia]], [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Venezuela]]. The following elections were rigged and opposition groups forbidden and persecuted.<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/node/257729/print</ref> Only the russian pro-lukashenko observers called the election fair, during the [[OSCE]] criticized them.<ref>http://cnsnews.com/node/17466</ref> Protesters against the government were arrested.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/03/23/belarus-police-break-up-protest-arrest-nearly-200/</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> 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>  

Before Lukashenko was the president of Belarus, 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 sympathizer of the USSR. Belarus is the only country whose intelligence service uses the name [[KGB]]. In 1994 he was democratically elected as the president of Belarus. In his tenure he started to control courts, banks and universities, installed a dictatorship and started to improve the relationships with [[Russia]], [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Venezuela]]. The following elections were rigged and opposition groups forbidden and persecuted.<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/node/257729/print</ref> Only the russian pro-lukashenko observers called the election fair, during the [[OSCE]] criticized them.<ref>http://cnsnews.com/node/17466</ref> Protesters against the government were arrested.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/03/23/belarus-police-break-up-protest-arrest-nearly-200/</ref>  

The Republican [[John McCain]] called him "a ruthless, repressive and brutal tyrant on the wrong side of history".<ref>http://world.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=26189&content=47917921&pageNum=2</ref>

 

 

The RINO [[John McCain]] called him "a ruthless, repressive and brutal tyrant on the wrong side of history".<ref>http://world.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=26189&content=47917921&pageNum=2</ref>

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