Natalia lukashenko biography

Natalia Vladimirovna Petkevich is a Belarusian politician who served formerly as the First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Belarus.
Abstract: This research focuses on Belarus, a former Soviet republic that elected its first president, Alexander Lukashenko, in 1994.
Natalia Kaliada MBE is the co-founding Artistic Director of Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), an award-winning theatre-maker, writer and director.

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Natalia Vladimirovna Petkevich (Template:Lang-beNatallya Uladzimirovna Pyatkevich; Template:Lang-ruNatalya Vladimirovna Petkevich; born 1972) is a Belarusian politician, the First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Belarus.

Biography[]

Natalia Petkevich was born in Minsk. In 1994, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Belarusian State University. In 1998, she earned the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science. Joining the Administration of the President of Belarus, she came to serve as Chief for the Administration of State and International Law of the Administration of the President of Belarus. In 2001, she was appointed Press Secretary of the President of Belarus. Then, in 2004, she was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Belarus. Natalia Petkevich has been called the "Iron Lady" of Belarus, and has been considered a potential sucessor to President Alexander Lukashenko.^[1] On 10 April 2006, following the 2006 presidential election in Belarus, she was placed on a list of over 40 mem

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Alexander Lukashenko does not want anyone to call him a hero. He doesn’t want a statue either. He was simply doing his job.

Or so the Belarusian dictator told his generals in a medal ceremony last week as he re-enacted several key phone calls last weekend with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner group boss, that supposedly brought Russia back from the brink of civil conflict as tanks advanced towards Moscow.

“I called him at 11am. Yevgeny was euphoric. He used ten times more swearwords than normal words,” Lukashenko said, with trademark bluster, “I told him, ‘Zhenia [the familiar form of Yevgeny] . . . ‘they’ll crush you like a bedbug halfway there.’ ”

Putin with Lukashenko in September last year. The balance of power between the pair may now be reassessed

GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/AFP

Lukashenko, 68, loves spinning a yarn. “We’ve seen lots of times when the

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Dr Natalya Chernyshova

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Media articles and policy papers:

‘Rethinking the Role of Belarus in the UK Policy on the War in Ukraine’, H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, 12 June 2024.

‘If D-day ceremony aimed to send Putin a message about fighting tyranny, Ukraine’s allies should have paid more attention to history’, The Conversation, 11 June 2024.

'Failed Wagner Group coup leaves Putin humiliated and Belarus dictator Lukashenko more secure – for now', The Conversation, 23 June 2023.

'Arming Ukraine: lessons from the European conflicts of the twentieth century' (opinion article), History & Policy, 22 June 2023.

'Ukraine war: Russia’s threat to station nuclear warheads in Belarus – what you need to know', The Conversation, 21 June 2023.

'Russia’s war on Ukraine is deeply unpopular in Belarus', Australian Outlook, 14 July 2022.

'Ukraine invasion: How Belarus has become Russia's pawn', The Conversation, 7 March 2022.

'The West needs to appreciate how the protest