This has long been no secret to anyone in Belarus: President Alexander Lukashenko has a highly developed sense of beauty. Including when it comes to the fair sex.
In principle, not only is there nothing reprehensible in this. In the eyes of the majority of the population of the former USSR, the leader of the nation simply must be an alpha male, given the predominance of women among the electorate. In any case, Belarus is not Ireland, where the newly elected prime minister does not hide his not entirely traditional orientation, which former fellow citizens would hardly understand.
On the contrary, if beauties periodically appear in the close retinue of the head of state, who bear little resemblance to flabby officials and boring female politicians, this, on the contrary, can cause nothing but slight envy among voters (especially the male half).
The last time Lukashenko gave a reason to talk about his matrimonial affairs was at the beginning of this year, when he publicly appeared accompanied by an unknown and mysterious lady.
Representatives of the stronger sex nod understandingly, and women secretly try on the image of the presidential passion. In general, the mixture of “Santa Barbara” with series about the life of the sultans with their harems strengthens the unity of the nation on the scale of one individual country much more than the threat of NATO aggression. Maybe this is how it was intended?
However, let's take it one step at a time...
Main wife
No matter what anyone says, a representative of the stronger sex needs a lot of courage to officially get married. But for a man in the position of president to officially get a divorce, this will require true heroism.
Almost everyone knows that the Belarusian Old Man has not lived with his official wife for quite a long time, in a country where the image of the leader of the nation is almost sacred.
Perhaps, due to this circumstance, Alexander Lukashenko is in no hurry to formalize the “actual termination of marriage relations,” as this process is described in registry office jargon.
Although, as Svetlana Kalinkina, a journalist for the Belarusian Partisan publication, told Reedus, Lukashenko is not going to get a divorce not for political reasons, but “so as not to offend his wife.”
He's a kind-hearted man, there's no other way to put it.
Galina Lukashenko
Let us remind you that Alexander Lukashenko is officially married to Galina Lukashenko (nee Zholnerovich). Father sometimes comes to his official mother-in-law Elena Zholnerovich for pancakes. As the head of the Belarusian publication Nasha Niva, Yegor Martinovich, told Reedus, Lukashenko calls her “a friend of man.” Not everyone is so lucky with their mothers-in-law. With sons-in-law, however, too.
Legitimate wife who did not become first lady
Officially, Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has been married to a woman named Galina since 1975. She is the mother of the president’s two eldest children, Victor and Dmitry. As you know, the couple have not been together for more than 30 years. Until 1994 they lived in the village. And when Lukashenko became president of Belarus and moved to Minsk, Galina refused to follow him. When asked why she lives separately from her husband, she said: “I chose this life myself.”
Alexander Lukashenko and his wife Galina
Woman with a default figure
However, Lukashenko never appeared together with the daughter of a “friend of man” at protocol events (except for one visit to Israel). Instead, his main companion was his youngest son Nikolai, whose mother is Irina Abelskaya, Doctor of Science in cervical osteochondrosis.
Irina Abelskaya
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The fact that the president of the country and the head physician of the Republican Clinical Medical Center have a common child is generally recognized, but not officially confirmed.
This is the second most important woman in the life of the President of Belarus. "Younger wife", so to speak. If Belarus were a Muslim country, the president would not even have to look away when mentioning the mother of his youngest son.
But since there is no formal approval from above to point out this connection, Belarusian journalists do not risk calling the president’s youngest son Kolya Lukashenko, instead using a kind of figure of silence (everyone already knows who they are talking about).
But Belarusian journalists dug up the fact that Kolya’s maternal grandfather (that is, Alexander Lukashenko’s de facto father-in-law) was convicted of anti-Soviet activities and support of Ukrainian nationalists during the Great Patriotic War. Is it a sin or, conversely, a merit in modern Belarus - a controversial question.
“Abelskaya suddenly disappeared from view, and then suddenly appeared again,” recalled journalist Pavel Sheremet, now deceased, in 2013.
However, Kolya’s mother is not at all “imprisoned in a monastery,” as some Russian feminists worried last year.
“And she’s not a recluse or a good girl at all. At a time of close relations with Lukashenko, she could have started a public scandal at the ball. But she definitely doesn’t apply for the role of first lady. He lives not in the presidential residence, but in his own house. There are always other applicants for the residence,” says Kalinkina.
Emperor's entourage
In 2007, singer Irina Dorofeeva . She accompanied Lukashenko on trips and lived openly at his residence during the Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk. The apogee of this connection was the song “My incomparable, unearthly and unreal Angel,” which Ira gave to her patron for her birthday. Now she is a deputy.
The next actress to come into the public eye was the actress of the Kupala Theater Marta Golubeva . In 2008, she danced with the president at an Independence Day concert. She was barely 18 years old at the time. She sat on the right hand of the head of state at the Miss Belarus 2016 competition. But on the left there sat the presenter of the Belteleradiocompany, Polina Shuba . Before this, both girls replaced each other for several years, until they were both replaced by Vitebsk student Christina Nevero . Lukashenko met this beauty in the “presidential agricultural town” of Alexandria near Shklov, where Kristina greeted him with bread and salt.
Another girl who has been seen more than once next to Alexander Grigorievich is Alina Roskach , a finalist of the same Miss Belarus 2016 beauty contest.
Lukashenko does not hide his love of love, adding, not without pride, that his protocol service employs very beautiful girls who often ask to sit next to him. This honor is most often awarded to employee Daria Shmanay and head of the presidential press service Natalya Eismont .
And, of course, Alexander Grigorievich is nowhere without Svetlana Konoshenko , who became the president’s new personal physician after Abelskaya’s resignation. For some reason, she participates in all the president’s agricultural activities: she collects potatoes with him, mows the grass, and milks the cow. During the harvest festival in Drozdy, Svetlana worked in tandem with the head of state: Lukashenko threw apples to her, which he picked from the trees. And then they ate one fruit between them, with Sveta taking the first bite.
Lukashenko first saw Vasilevich on the podium in 2021 and since then they have always been together. Photo: © ITAR-TASS
Corps de ballet
Most of the cases when journalists started talking about Lukashenko’s new companions were connected precisely with the analysis of programs from Belarusian state television channels, says Martinovich.
“The last surge of interest in Lukashenko’s women was in January, when a news broadcast showed a woman in the background getting out of the presidential limousine. But it was not possible to identify her in hot pursuit, and she was never seen on camera again. Either it was a false alarm, or now cameramen and editors are working more carefully so that unnecessary people do not get into the frame and such leaks do not occur,” suggests the Minsk journalist.
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According to him, this could be one of Old Man’s former passions, Irina Dorofeeva, now she is a member of parliament, but she does not intersect with Lukashenko at all.
Much more interesting is the president’s other companion, Marta Golubeva. The girl was and remains an actress of the Kupala Theater. She does not communicate with the press, and the press does not particularly insist on this.
Marta Golubeva in company with Alexander Lukashenko. On the far right in the photo
Before this, Marta was known as a soloist of the Verasy ensemble. She began appearing in Lukashenko’s company on her 18th birthday. “There is nothing that would cause excitement either in the behavior or in the way this person (Lukashenko) behaves,” she admitted in an interview with Euroradio. When asked how she became Lukashenko’s companion, Marta refused to answer.
Marta Golubeva
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Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko, President of Belarus
In his marriage to Galina, the Belarusian leader had two sons - the eldest, Victor, and the middle, Dmitry. But the identity of the mother of Lukashenko’s youngest and most popular heir, Nikolai, is not known for certain. But those who follow his personal life are sure that the young man was born by the president’s former personal physician, Irina Abelskaya. It is worth noting that they are very similar in appearance.
Western media, citing intelligence data, claim that during his presidency, Alexander Lukashenko was noticed in connection with dozens of women. But it is known for certain that he maintained long-term relationships with nine of them.
So, in 2007, the head of state was accompanied by singer Irina Dorofeeva, who even lived at his residence. She dedicated a heartfelt song about an angel to him, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives of Belarus. Next to the politician for a long time were theater actress Marta Golubeva and radio presenter Polina Shuba, who were soon replaced by student from Vitebsk Kristina Nevero. Alexander Lukashenko was also seen with Alina Roskach, a finalist of the Miss Belarus 2016 contest.
The president claims that his protocol service employs many beautiful women who allegedly themselves ask to be next to him at various events. Most often, this is apparently achieved by service employee Daria Shmanay and the press secretary of the head of state, Natalya Eismont.
After Irina Abelskaya left, Svetlana Konoshenko became Lukashenko’s personal physician. She is often seen in the company of the Belarusian leader at agricultural events. During the harvest in Drozdy, he and the president ate one apple between them.
Rumor has it that currently the main sweetheart of Alexander Lukashenko is the winner of the Miss Belarus 2018 contest, Maria Vasilevich. According to some publications, he personally prepared the girl for the Miss World competition in China. As a result, she made it into the top five, and then, like Dorofeeva, became a deputy.
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But many more Belarusian women are not ready to spend future years with Lukashenko. The day before, tens of thousands of Belarusians united against him in a protest march that took place in the capital of Belarus.
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Dad can do anything?
Previously, the youngest son of the Belarusian president, Nikolai, appeared in the media more often, but now you can see him on television much less often. As Alexander Lukashenko himself says, all this is because his son has become too tall and it is somehow inconvenient to call him a baby. The President of Belarus is not a dwarf himself, so his son has room to grow, at least in the anthropometric sense.
However, with political growth, everything is much more complicated.
Just in case, the official media are trying to create a positive image for Nikolai. At the end of 2021, state TV made a film about Lukashenko Jr. The film is completely Christmassy, cheesy and never sensational. Ordering is also ordering in Belarus.
You can often hear that dad is actively preparing Kolya to be his successor. Who knows...
While the boy is in high school, it will be possible to talk about any of his opportunities to inherit power and lead the country no earlier than in 20 years. For, if something happened to the pope, the institution of regency is not provided for in the republic.
Viktor Lukashenko (the eldest son from an official marriage) holds the position of national security assistant. But I have never worked in a managerial position with responsibility for results. If his father had prepared him to lead the country, he would have given him a real job.
Dmitry Lukashenko (middle son) heads the Presidential Sports Club - partly a business structure, partly a charitable foundation. He appears in public very rarely, he never speaks in front of cameras, because these are not his strengths at all.
“The main thing is that Belarus is a European country, unlike Azerbaijan or Central Asia. In our country, a mechanical transfer of power from father to son is hardly realistic. Even Lukashenko’s supporters will not support this,” says Martinovich.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko with his son Nikolai during voting
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Talk about a possible “succession to the throne” based on the North Korean model first circulated in Belarus as a joke: “How long? - Until Kolya! But the further it goes, the more it seems real, because Lukashenko does not even indicate a possible mechanism for his departure, a mechanism for the transfer of power, explains Svetlana Kalinkina.
It’s not about the president’s children or women at all, adds the Belarusian Partisan journalist.
“The abundance of characters with the last name Lukashenko in the country is already annoying people. And there is a lot of Alexander Grigorievich himself, and then there are three more sons, and a bunch of grandchildren, and his own relatives, and relatives of relatives, and friends, and characters with whom he worked and studied... And it is not clear for what merits. In general, there is a clear feeling that the country is ruled by a clan,” says the journalist.
Childhood and youth
Dmitry Lukashenko was born on March 23, 1980 in the Republic of Belarus. He was the youngest son of Alexander Lukashenko and his wife Galina. Later, Dmitry and Viktor Lukashenko had a brother, Nikolai, whose mother’s name was not disclosed.
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Dmitry Lukashenko in childhood, father Alexander Lukashenko and brother Viktor Lukashenko
After graduating from school, the young man decided to continue his education at the Belarusian State University. He entered the Faculty of International Relations, where he mastered the profession of an international lawyer. Dima defended his thesis on the topic of sports, and then took up his career.
