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Viktar Aliaksandravich Lukashenka (, ; *28). November 1975 in Mahiljou, Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic is a Belarusian politician and the eldest son of President Aleksandr Lukashenka. He was charged with human rights violations and placed on the sanctions lists of the United States and the European Union.

Live life
Viktar Lukashenka was born in 1975 in Mahiljou as the son of Aliaksandr Lukashenka and his wife Halina Lukashenka. He has a brother named Dzmitry Lukashenka and a half-brother, Mikalaj Lukashenka. He graduated from the Faculty of International Relations at the Belarusian State University and served his compulsory military service with the Belarusian Border Guard Service. He later worked at the Belarusian Foreign Ministry and at a military export company called Agat. Since 2005, he has been responsible for his father as a national security advisor.

As of 2007, he is a member of the Security Council of Belarus.

On 26 February 2021, Viktar Lukashenka became President of the Belarusian NOK.

He has four children and lives in Minsk. The wife of Viktar Lukashenka, Lilija Lukashenka, is connected with the Karićs (Bojan Karić, Nebojša Karić), Serbian businessmen, through offshore companies in Cyprus.

Sanctions
Following the wave of political persecution following the 2010 presidential elections, Lukashenka was placed on a sanctions list of 208 people responsible for political repression, electoral fraud and propaganda in 2011, with an EU travel ban and asset freeze. The sanctions were lifted in 2016. Following the decision of the EU Council, Viktar Lukashenka, in his capacity as a key member of the National Security Council, coordinated the repressive measures against the democratic opposition and civil society, in particular during the demonstration on 19 March. December 2010.

On 6 November 2020, the European Union imposed personal sanctions against him and a number of other Belarusian officials, including Aliaksandr Lukashenka. The United Kingdom, Switzerland and Canada also included Viktar Lukashenka in their sanctions lists. In addition, Viktar Lukashenka remains one of the few people on the United States sanctions list (Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons).

On 7 December 2020, he, like his father, who led the National Olympic Committee (NOC) at that time for 23 years, was provisionally excluded from all Olympic activities by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo (Japan), because they do not sufficiently protect Belarusian athletes from political discrimination.

In 2022, Viktar Lukashenka was blacklisted by Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

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