Talk:Alexander Lukashenko

It is in the intro and footnote mentioned about the power of Lukaschenko, that he is support by China. This is not written in the given source https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3293777/spurned-west-russia-ally-belarus-courting-china , it's just written that Belarus is seeking closer economic ties with China. Even if Belarus would not just seek, but have close economic ties, that would not justify this sentence. It's generally also questionable that the economic "support" from China is relevant enough for the intro (it's certainly not the basis of power of Lukaschenko and more of a topic for the economy of Belarus). --2A0C:CAC2:203:2E50:317D:B72D:CC85:91F1 (talk) 20:53, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

This is stated in the lead section, but clicking on the article leads us to discover that both Sweden and Norway's monarchs have been serving since a time older. Changing this to 'longest-serving European president' or something along those lines would be better AHWikipedian (talk) 06:55, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

I guess the difference is that those countries have constitutional monarchies, so the monarch is not really a "leader", but only the ceremonial head of state. This was previously discussed before and the wording used to be "long-serving head of state", but of course, this is less accurate. The sources cited use "leader" but no objection to using "president" if we can cite some sources for this. Mellk (talk) 07:42, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Then that article should define if it means head of states or head of governments, but regardless, I don't have a strong objection to keeping it as it is, but maybe the article has a problem. AHWikipedian (talk) 12:24, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

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Change the link on "Alexandria" in the "Early life, family and education" section from "Alexandria, Egypt" to plain text "Alexandria" with no link, since it refers to Alexandria, Belarus, which does not currently have its own article. DPRKBEST (talk) 00:54, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done Day Creature (talk) 06:06, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

The cited source does NOT say that he was the "deputy political officer" of the 120th at Minsk, it says only that he was "an officer" at the base at the time. Commissars were usually enlisted with the title of "political officer" not actually commissioned. Also, the Wikipedia entry shows the 120th did not exist during Lukasehnko's conscription: «On 1 June 1982 the division was reorganised as the 5th Guards Independent Army Corps with a 2:2 mix of tank and motor rifle brigades and regiments.» Please fix the misleading language or cite a better source, and please cite the correct unit for the era. edited because I accidentally a word. ChekovsMoustache (talk) 03:51, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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Change the image photo on the current Belarusian President's inofobox from to Александр Лукашенко (2025-06-27) (cropped).jpg ~2025-32914-13 (talk) 13:14, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit extended-protected}} template. NotJamestack (talk) 14:09, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

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Add File:Инаугурация Лукашешко 1994 год.jpg as an illustration for his first inauguration on 20 July 1994 Newpictures11 (talk) 15:48, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: The photo is low-quality and its copyright status is unclear. Day Creature (talk) 16:38, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

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In "In the first two videos, he is seen walking near a helicopter, wearing a bulletproof vest and holding an assault rifle (possibly an AK-47)" (citation 141), the rifle Lukashenko was holdint is not "possibly an AK-47". It is surely an AKS-74U. ~2026-30822-9 (talk) 10:05, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done. I used this reference. Kelob2678 (talk) 10:16, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

I feel that the link should be added to the relevant page: List of international presidential trips made by Alexander Lukashenko. Shapoklya78 (talk) 20:25, 5 April 2026 (UTC)