Born in 1954 in the then-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lukashenko held management positions at various state-run collective farms before being elected to the country's Supreme Soviet in 1990.

One of these is Belarus’s white-red-white flag. It’s considered a legitimate symbol of Belarusian statehood in opposition to the red-and-green flag, which has origins dating back to the Belarusian ...

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the ...

From farmer to leader - Born in 1954 in the then-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lukashenko held ... country's Supreme Soviet in 1990. He won Belarus's first democratic presidential election ...