Prorussian Alexander Lukashenko Meets Van der Bellen

PeoplePoliticians ♦ Published: November 12, 2019; 12:12 ♦ (Vindobona)

The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in office since 1994 (now in his fifth term of office), was received by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen during an official visit with military honours.

Official visit of the President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. / Picture: © www.bundespraesident.at / Carina Karlovits and Peter Lechner / HBF

Alexander Lukashenko has been President of Belarus since 1994.

His critics, such as Germany's late Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, have repeatedly described him as "Europe's last dictator".

In the presidential elections for his fourth term in office in 2010, there were major demonstrations against the government, but these were brutally suppressed.

After…