Galina Rodionovna Lukashenko ( be, Галіна Радзівонаўна Лукашэнка, Halina Radzivonaŭna Łukašenka, russian: Галина Родионовна Лукашенко), née Zhelnerovich ( be, Жэлняровіч, russian: Желнерович, Zhelnerovich) is the wife of the

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

ian President, Alexander Lukashenko and is the current

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. Galina is estranged from Alexander who has had at least one extra-marital affair that produced a son, Nikolai in 2004.

Biography

She was born on 1 January 1955 in the family of Rodion Georgievich Zhelnerovich (1928-1983) from

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and Elena Fedorovna Zhelnerovich (1929-2019) from Slutsk. She met Alexander Lukashenko while still in high school in the village of Ryzhkovichi, and married him in 1975, upon graduation from the

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Pedagogical Institute (now Mogilev State University).«Биографические страницы: Первые леди»
Коммерсант.ru At this time, she worked in a kindergarten. Since January 1998, she has been the head of the department of the

Regional Executive Committee for the Improvement of the Population. She did not move with her husband to

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at the beginning of his presidential career, instead living on Zemlyanichnaya Street in

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, where she has since lived. She does not accompany her husband at public events and rarely sees with him. One of the earlier moments when the couple was seen together was the year Lukashenko was elected, when he was on a

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Sanctions

On 15 March 2022, Galina Lukashenka was added to the

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sanctions list - designated under Executive Order 13405 for "being a senior-level official who is responsible for or has engaged in public corruption related to Belarus". On 25 March 2022, she was sanctioned by

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References

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