Viktor Lukashenko

Viktor Aleksandrovich Lukashenko[lower-alpha 1] or Viktar Alyaksandravch Lukashenka[lower-alpha 2] (born 28 November 1975) is a Belarusian politician and the eldest son of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko. He currently serves as the president of the Belarus Olympic Committee. Previously, he served as a national security advisor to his father, the president of Belarus.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Lukashenko.

Viktor Lukashenko
Віктар Лукашэнка
Viktor Lukashenko in 2019
President of the Belarus Olympic Committee
Assumed office
26 February 2021
PresidentAlexander Lukashenko
Preceded byAlexander Lukashenko
National Security Advisor to the President of Belarus
In office
2005 – 26 February 2021
PresidentAlexander Lukashenko
Member of the Security Council of Belarus
Assumed office
January 2007
PresidentAlexander Lukashenko
Personal details
Born (1975-11-28) 28 November 1975
Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
SpouseLilya Lukashenko
Children4
Parents
RelativesDmitry Lukashenko (brother)
Nikolai Lukashenko (half-brother)

Early life and education

Viktor Lukashenko was born on 28 November 1975, to Galina Lukashenko, who worked at a kindergarten, and Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus since 1994.

Viktor Lukashenko graduated from the International Relations faculty of the Belarusian State University in 1998 and served his mandatory military duty at the Belarusian Border Guard Service between 1998 and 2001.[1]

Career

He worked at the Foreign Ministry of Belarus and at a military exports company, Agat.

In 2005, Viktor Lukashenko became an Assistant on National Security to his father, President Alexander Lukashenko and in January 2007, he became a member of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus.[1]

Viktor has been linked to Belarusian businessman Alexander Zaytsev, who previously worked as Viktor's aide.[2][3][4] Zaytsev was the chairman of the council of Bremino Group which created a special economic zone in Orsha in 2018.[5]

In 2021, Viktor Lukashenko was appointed President of the Belarus Olympic Committee, succeeding his father, after both were banned from attending the Olympic games.[6]

Viktor Lukashenko was also relieved of his post as the Aide to the President for National Security on 1 March.[7]

Accusations and sanctions

In 2011, after the wave of repressions that followed the 2010 presidential election in Belarus, Lukashenko became subject to an EU travel ban and asset freeze as part of a sanctions list of 208 individuals responsible for political repressions, electoral fraud and propaganda.[8] The EU sanctions were lifted in 2016.[9]

According to the EU Council's decision,[10] Lukashenko "has played a key role in the repressive measures implemented against the democratic opposition and civil society. As a key member of the State Security Council, he was responsible for the coordination of repressive measures against the democratic opposition and civil society, in particular in the crackdown of the demonstration on 19 December 2010." Besides that, Lukashenko is on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List of the United States Department of the Treasury.[11]

On 6 November 2020, the Council of the European Union included Viktor Lukashenko in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 765/2006.[12] He was banned from visiting European Union and his assets in EU were frozen.[13] Viktor Lukashenko was also sanctioned by the United Kingdom,[14] and Canada.[15] On 24 November, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania aligned themselves with the November EU sanctions against 15 Belarusian individuals,[16] while Switzerland did the same on 11 December.[17]

Viktor's wife, Lilya Lukashenko, runs an art gallery, Art Chaos Gallery in Dana Mall, a shopping center in the north of Minsk.[18] Dana Mall is owned by a large construction company, Dana Astra which in turn is said to be owned by Bogoljub Karić and Nebojša Karić, members of the Serbian Karić family.[19][20] Lilya Lukashenko was listed as a deputy director for Dana Astra 2016–2017.[20] Dana Astra's parent company, Dana Holdings, is the main contractor for one of the biggest development projects in Minsk, called "Minsk-Mir".[21] On 21 June 2021, Lilya Lukashenko was sanctioned by the European Union.[22][23]

In December 2020 the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to exclude until further notice all members of the Belarusian Olympic Committee from all IOC events.[24]

In 2022, Viktor Lukashenko was sanctioned by Australia,[25] New Zealand[26] and Japan.[27]

See also

Notes
  1. Russian: Виктор Александрович Лукашенко, IPA: [vʲˈiktər ɐlʲɪksˈandrəvʲɪt͡ɕ lʊkɐˈʂɛnkə]
  2. Belarusian: Віктар Аляксандравіч Лукашэнка, IPA: [vʲiktar alʲaksandravʲit͡ʂ ɫukaʂɛnka]

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