How much did Alexander Lukashenko earn and what did he own during the pre-election years? Media: Lukashenka's fortune reaches $12 billion Lukashenka's fortune is estimated by Forbes

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The Central Election Commission of Belarus, on the eve of those scheduled for October 11, published data on the incomes of candidates. The current President Alexander Lukashenko, according to these data, is by no means rich.

In the declaration of income submitted to the CEC by Alexander Lukashenko, only his presidential salary is indicated - about 46 million Belarusian rubles (about 4.5 thousand dollars) per month.

The current president of Belarus officially has no other income. And judging by the published amounts, the income of the head of state is only ten times higher than the salary of the average Belarusian.

Half of the house and promotions

Galina Lukashenko still owns a residential building in the regional center of Shklov, half of a village house in a nearby village, and 56 shares of the Shklov Butter Plant.

The adult sons of President Lukashenko, who live and work in the Belarusian capital, did not report to the Central Election Commission.

Image copyright RIA Novosti Image caption The youngest son Kolya accompanies Alexander Lukashenko on his state visits abroad

The eldest son Viktor Lukashenko is the assistant to the president for national security, a member of the Security Council of Belarus.

Sredny, Dmitry, officially heads the "Presidential Sports Club" and is a member of the National Olympic Committee.

Feelings for Kolya

Alexander Lukashenko has seven grandchildren - three girls in the family of the middle son Dmitry, equally girls and boys in the eldest son Viktor.

The youngest son, schoolboy Kolya, who regularly accompanies the head of the Belarusian state on official trips and is invariably present at all official events in Belarus, was born out of wedlock, according to official information.

In one of his interviews, Alexander Lukashenko said that this child was "from God", in others he explained that the boy's mother was a doctor.

Irina Abelskaya, once the personal doctor of Alexander Lukashenko, according to non-state press reports, is excommunicated from Kolya's upbringing.

The difficult relationship between Alexander Lukashenko and Nikolai's mother was much talked about in social networks and in unofficial media.

The non-state publication Nasha Niva claims, however, that among the prestigious plots allocated for the cottages of officials on the outskirts of the Belarusian capital, there is one owned by Irina Abelskaya, the alleged mother of the boy beloved by Alexander Lukashenko.

Image copyright RIA Novosti Image caption Liberal Democrat leader Sergei Gaidukevich and his wife earned $2,000 a month

In an interview with the Mir TV company three years ago, Alexander Lukashenko was sincerely worried about the fate of the younger Kolya.

“I often talk with the baby in the morning, when he goes to school, I talk. He is jealous. He sits on his knees and asks: “I have only one son?” I say: “How is it one, but Dima, Vitya?” He is in answer: “What are you telling me about them, they are already adults. Yes, they are sons, but they already have their own children. "He often tells me this out of jealousy. Although they have a good relationship," the Belarusian president said.

Humble Pretenders

According to the Central Election Commission, other contenders for the presidency of Belarus in the inter-election period surpassed the average voter in income per family.

Liberal Democrat leader Sergei Gaidukevich and his wife Alla earned an average of $2,000 a month. Approximately the same number is officially indicated in the family declaration of the "Cossack ataman" pensioner Nikolai Ulakhovich.

Presidential candidate Tatyana Karatkevich, who represents part of the opposition, has a relatively modest declaration: just over 60 million Belarusian rubles a year. Seven and a half times less than Alexander Lukashenko, but slightly more than the income of the average Belarusian - at the level of a successful car or computer repairman, for example.

The mass of Belarusians, however, have a month below the official average - pensioners, state employees, workers of industrial giants sent on long summer vacations, rural workers, etc.

According to statistics, even the average Belarusian has to tighten up to buy what he needs, but he can only dream of acquiring what he wants.

Although the Belarusian warehouses are bursting: bearings and fur coats, according to official data, have been stocked for a year and a half, dump trucks and gloves - for a year.

Unsold offices and apartments - only in Minsk - will be enough for a million people. But there are no buyers: those who want simply do not have money.

Therefore, experts call the problem of the average income of a working Belarusian (in the previous presidential elections it was promised and almost turned out to be $500 per month on average) as one of the most determining factors of how many voters will vote for Lukashenka.

Thanks to unlimited power and the subordination of state governments, authoritarian rulers have amassed billions of dollars.

1. Former Egyptian President Mohammed Hosni Said Mubarak has amassed $77 billion.

Mubarak came to power after a fatal attack on former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. One of his first decisions was to introduce martial law, which he did not cancel until his resignation, which made it easier for him to fight against the opposition.

Mubarak ruled the Arab Republic of Egypt for 28 years. In early 2011, he was overthrown by the Egyptians during the Arab Spring. He was arrested and his bank accounts were frozen.

2. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - 1.5 billion dollars, but the assets of the entire family - 122 billion.

Assad was elected president of Syria in 2010. Prior to that, his father was president. Young Bashar was supposed to be more liberal than his father, but despite this, he is known for gross violations of human rights, as evidenced by recent events in Syria, and the state under his rule is experiencing further economic crises and is being eaten by corruption.

Assad also placed relatives in the most important government positions, thanks to which his family amassed a fortune of $122 billion.

3. Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Haji Bolkiah - $40 billion

Took power from his father in 1967. He is also the prime minister, defense minister and finance minister of Brunei.

The main income of the Sultan is the export of oil and gas. The head of Brunei also owns luxury hotels in London and 3,667 cars worth $789 million.

4. Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (pictured left) - $37 billion

He ruled Tunisia for 24 years before being overthrown in 2011 in the Arab Spring. In June 2012, Ben Ali was sentenced to life in prison.

5. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh saved $32 billion.

Ruled Yemen for 33 years, starting in 1978.

In 2011, Saleh was wounded in a shelling of the presidential palace during the revolution in Yemen. After that, he voluntarily relinquished power and handed it over to his successor.

6. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia - $21 billion

On the throne since 2005. His wealth is increasing mainly due to oil revenues.

While recovering from a spinal injury in New York, he rented half a wing of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, a security team, and 20 cars to carry his luggage.

7. "The last dictator of Europe" Alexander Lukashenko - 8-12 billion dollars.

He has ruled Belarus since 1994. According to various estimates, the fortune of the Lukashenka family is from 8 to 12 billion dollars, and the money is invested in profitable long-term projects outside the country. Only the new residence of Lukashenka (the Palace of Independence) cost 600 million dollars. The Belarusian ruler is constantly criticized for violating human rights and repressions, accused of corruption, illegal seizure of property of both Belarusian and Russian citizens, as well as obtaining income from smuggling.

8. President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe - from 5 to 10 billion dollars.

Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since 1987. During this time, he was repeatedly criticized for repressions against opposition activists, parliament and independent journalists.

Mugabe is also accused of violating the right to private property by repeatedly trying to confiscate land from white farmers.

There has been some growth in the Belarusian economy in 2017, but there is no reason for complacency, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday, while receiving a report on the work in 2017 and the draft forecast, budget and monetary policy for 2018 of the leaders of the government, the National Bank , regional executive committees and the Minsk City Executive Committee.

Lukashenka stressed that 2018 will be special. It is necessary to overcome the backlog allowed in 2016 and enter the trajectory of a five-year program of socio-economic development, BelTA informs.

“This year there has been some growth in the economy, there are positive developments in its key sectors. The domestic foreign exchange market is stable. The foreign trade balance is positive. We have increased our gold and foreign exchange reserves and are restoring export volumes. Nevertheless, there can be no grounds for complacency. The economy for 2015-2016 lost 6%. This year, only 2% won back, which is clearly not enough,” the president said.

According to Lukashenka, a natural question arises: why, with GDP growth, there is no planned increase in household incomes? “I'm not insisting that it be exorbitant growth - acceptable growth, and it is defined. Even in two years, we have not restored the level that was at the end of the last five-year period. Yes, and there are many questions and problems with the fulfillment of my instructions to achieve an average salary of a thousand rubles. In this regard, what do we expect in this part for 2018? the head of state asked.

Another important issue is employment. Here, Alexander Lukashenko pointed out, not all is well here either. “The government reports about 50,000 new jobs, but at the same time, as statisticians state, the number of laid-off workers exceeded the number of those hired by 43,000 people – two average regions of Belarus. The number of people employed in the economy should grow. Without this, it makes no sense to talk about macro-stability,” the President stressed.

According to the National Bank, this year Belarus will have the lowest inflation rate in the history of independence. “6% in 2017 is great. However, plans for 2018 provide for an increase to 7%. What are the reasons for this? We are talking about inflationary expectations, but at the same time we are spurring them on,” Lukashenka said.

The President is concerned about the investment situation. “According to my information, next year they are planned as much as 65% of the 2011 level. This is extremely insufficient to simply maintain the competitiveness of the economy. If there is no own capital, it is necessary to look for and attract investors. By the way, they also exist. And there are acceptable loans. But surprisingly, there are no projects. That’s all management,” the head of state said.

Lukashenka stressed that the budget should serve the goals of social policy. “Why is the budget turned into a crutch for lame enterprises? And the flow of proposals from the government for the manufacture of these crutches to the level of the president does not stop. The problem of debts in the real sector is alarming. The share of problem assets is high. How do the government, the National Bank view it? Or will it again be shifted to the country's budget? Most of the measures taken so far are cosmetic in nature. And we need systemic solutions,” the president said.

As previously reported, in January-October, the economy of Belarus, but experts warn that it will not be possible to reach higher rates without structural reforms. experts and the outstripping growth of real wages in the third quarter compared to the growth of labor productivity, noting that this could jeopardize the authorities' achievements in reducing inflation.

Alexander Lukashenko: biography

Alexander Lukashenko is the first and only president of the country of Belarus, whom the Belarusian people have been trusting for 20 years. In the world community, the Belarusian head is called “the last dictator of Europe”, with a hint of his undemocratic rule, but any citizen of the Republic considers him an example and authority in everything that determines his political longevity.

Alexander Lukashenko appeared on August 30, 1954 in the municipal-type settlement of Kopys, located in the Vitebsk region of Belarus in an incomplete family. The future president of the Republic of Belarus was brought up by one mother, Ekaterina Trofimovna, who worked as a milkmaid on a farm. There is practically no information about Lukashenka's father, it is only known that he was a forester.

The childhood of the Belarusian head was spent in the village of Alexandria in the center of the Dneprovsky collective farm, where he, together with rural children, attended a simple school, after which he entered the Mogilev Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of History. In 1975, Lukashenka took a civics teacher and a history diploma and, as a young distribution expert, was sent to the city of Shklov, where at school No. 1 he took the position of secretary of the Komsomol committee.

After working in that place for a couple of months, Alexander Grigoryevich was drafted into the army and for the next two years he paid his debt to his homeland at work in the border armies of the KGB. At the end of the army, the future president of Belarus continued his own Komsomol activities as secretary of the Komsomol committee in the Mogilev City Pishchetorg. In the second half of the 70s of the twentieth century, Alexander Grigoryevich took a membership in the CPSU, and in the first half of the 80s of the twentieth century, for the second time, he went to serve in the army, in which for the next two years he led a tank company for political affairs.

At the end of his second term in military service, Lukashenko was appointed assistant head of the Udarnik collective farm in Shklov, and after that he took the position of assistant director of a building materials plant in the same district center.

In 1985, the future political leader took a second higher education in economics, graduating from the correspondence department of the Belarusian Agricultural Academy. Along with this, he managed the Gorodets state farm, the successful activity in which allowed the young expert to lay the foundation for his own future political take-off. Lukashenka was the first who, under the conditions of perestroika, began to introduce a rental contract in state farms, thanks to which a loss-making state farm turned into a leading one in a short period.

Alexander Lukashenko: politics

Alexander Grigorievich got into huge politics thanks to his achievements on the Gorodets collective farm. His merits and efforts were appreciated by the supreme administration of the USSR, Lukashenka was invited to Moscow, where he became the People's Deputy of Belarus. At the end of the collapse of the USSR, the fatherland of the young politician became a sovereign country, which allowed him to quickly rise to the very pinnacle of power and build a dizzying political career.

Having created a reputation for himself as a fighter and defender of the people against corrupt authorities, Alexander Grigoryevich won the trust of the electorate and, ignoring intrigues, was able to break into power. Lukashenka's "revealing" activity allowed him to become the most popular politician of that time, surrounded by a huge number of associates. But, at the end of the beginning of the implementation of the plans of the future president of Belarus, many members of the team left him, going over to the opposition. For some, the departure from Lukashenka was the finale of their political career, since only a few people who did not support the future Belarusian head of state were able to stay in the upper echelons of power.

The election program of Alexander Lukashenko was based on the withdrawal of the country, which is on the verge of an abyss, from an acute crisis, which the promising politician was going to do in several ways. He made a promise to people that he would save the population from poverty, wipe out the mafia from the face of the earth, reduce inflation and restore ties with Russia and other former Soviet republics. The population actively supported the candidacy of Alexander Grigoryevich in the presidential elections of 1994, as a result of which Lukashenko became the first president of the free Republic of Belarus, having collected more than 80% of the vote.

Alexander Lukashenko: President of Belarus

the catchy political favorite Alexander Lukashenko, having come to power without delay, began to implement his own plan to bring the Republic of Belarus out of the crisis. From the very beginning of his presidency, he held a referendum in which the Russian language was given national status, the coat of arms and flag of the young country was introduced, and political integration with Russia was approved.

Thanks to Lukashenka, in 1995, payment and customs alliances were created between Russia and Belarus, and a contract was signed on friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation with the Russian Federation. Almost a year later, economic and humanitarian integration was established with the Republic and the Kyrgyz Republic of Kazakhstan. In November 1996, the Belarusian leader made a constitutional reform, unrecognized by the EU and the US, according to which the countdown of the five-year presidential term was restarted, and the head of the republic assumed enormous powers.

The second presidential term of Lukashenko started in 2001, at a time when Alexander Grigorievich collected more than 75% of the vote in the first round of elections. At that time, the world community and the OSCE stated that the presidential elections in Belarus did not meet Western standards, but Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin personally congratulated the victorious Lukashenka, publicly welcoming his re-election.

Having come to power for the second time, the Belarusian head began to pursue a controversial policy with

Russia - Lukashenka and Putin could not find a compromise answer on the issues of introducing and managing a single currency. In addition, the tense situation between the Russian and Belarusian favorites was exacerbated by the gas scandal that appeared against the backdrop of a complete cessation and reduction of gas supplies to the Republic of Belarus by Moscow.

Along with this, Alexander Grigorievich achieved great success in the economic plan, and held a third referendum, at which amendments to the Constitution of Belarus were approved, providing for the removal of the restriction in the form of two presidential terms for one person. The results of this referendum, like the previous two, were not recognized in the United States and the European Union, against which a series of economic sanctions were introduced against the republic and Lukashenka himself.

Ignoring this, the Belarusian head did not deviate from his own political direction and announced that there would be no “color revolutions” in Belarus, since he would not allow Western criminals to establish “orders” in their own country. In March 2006, the third presidential election was held in the Republic of Belarus, in which Lukashenko became the invariable favorite, collecting more than 83% of the vote.

Lukashenka's third presidential term is notable for the fact that the Belarusian leader took a principled response to the construction of a nuclear power plant, which will be launched in 2016 and will provide the country with inexpensive energy, which will save up to $ 1 billion a year on gas imports.

Having retained his own high positions of popularity, love and devotion of Belarusians, Alexander Lukashenko again wins the presidential elections in 2010 and becomes the permanent favorite of his own country for the fourth time. As in all past victories of Alexander Grigorievich in the opposition and in the West, they were calculated as “falsification”, despite the fact that now the OSCE observers called the elections transparent and democratic.

Lukashenko's fourth presidential term fell on the acute currency crisis in Belarus in 2011, during which the ruble lost 189% against the dollar. But along with this, the Belarusian leader did not recognize the financial crisis in the country and pursued his own policy in the chosen direction. Following the results of the 2012 parliamentary elections, as in previous times, only Lukashenka's supporters entered, with whom the Belarusian favorite was able to overcome financial difficulties in the country.

For all 20 years of ruling Belarus, Alexander Grigoryevich managed to bring the country to the world's leading level in terms of production and economic growth, while maintaining domestic engineering, agriculture and the petrochemical industry. Despite the countless US and EU sanctions, the Belarusian leader was able to maintain good relations with many world states and remain an authority for his own people.

According to the politician himself, he is going to take part in the presidential race for the fifth time in 2015, stating that in addition, if the whole land opposes him, he will be able to become president of the country of Belarus again. Lukashenka does not rule out that the population may already be tired from his 20-year rule, but this does not reduce his chances of winning.

The President of the Republic of Belarus also devotes a large amount of free time from work to ice hockey, which has been his hobby since childhood. He systematically trains, maintains his own physical form and holds tournament games in which he sets the rules himself. Another hobby of Lukashenka is cross-country skiing, where he rides not only with his comrades-in-arms and his bodyguards, but also competes with influential civil servants of other states, including Russian Prime Minister Medvedev. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Alexander Lukashenko: personal life

The personal life of Alexander Lukashenko is not as constant as his career. In 1975, the Belarusian favorite married his own school friend Galina Zhelnerovich. who bore him two Dmitry and sons Victor. The eldest son of Lukashenka is an adviser to the Belarusian chairman in the National Security Council of the country, and Dmitry heads the central council of the Presidential Sports Club.

There is information that now the President of Belarus does not live with his wife, but along with this, he is officially married to Galina. Lukashenka's wife lives in the village of Ryzhkovichi and is under the constant protection of her husband, on whose instructions she does not give any comments on relations with her husband to the press.

According to official sources, in 2004 the President of the Republic of Belarus had an illegitimate son, Nikolai, who, according to media reports, was born by a former doctor of the presidential family, Irina Abelskaya. The younger son of the non-replaceable Belarusian head systematically appears with his father at many official events, journalists are sure that this fact is an indicator that it is Nikolai Alexander Grigorievich who is preparing for the presidency.

In addition, the President of Belarus has two grandchildren and five granddaughters, whom Lukashenka constantly tries to find time for communication. Lukashenka's grandchildren do not feel the lack of attention of their influential grandfather, for whom they are the most priority persons in the family.

Alexander Lukashenko: photo

18 photos: Alexander Lukashenko

While presidential candidate Tatyana Korotkevich is about to ask the President a stupid question, I thought that if I were in her place, I should have asked a completely different question.

I just calculated how much different candidates for the presidency of Belarus earned in different election campaigns. And what do we see?

year 2000.
The salary of President Alexander Lukashenko is $5,035 per year, or about $420 per month.
The average salary in Belarus is $1,012, or about $84 per month.
The difference is 4.975 times.

2005 year.
The salary of President Alexander Lukashenko is $27,395 per year, or about $2,282 per month.
The average salary in Belarus is $2,606 per year, or about $217 per month.
The difference is 10.51 times.

year 2009.
The salary of President Alexander Lukashenko is $34,630 per year, or about $2,885 per month.
The average salary in Belarus is $4,387 a year, or about $365 a month.
The difference is 7.89 times.

year 2014.
The salary of President Alexander Lukashenko is $51,640 per year, or about $4,300 per month.
The average salary in Belarus is $7,061 per year, or about $588 per month.
The difference is 7.31 times.
P.S. At the end of 2014, the official rate was very far behind the cash rate, and the seven thousand dollars of the average annual salary is a strong exaggeration, albeit according to official data.

Attention, question! Why not raise the difference between the salaries of the President and an ordinary worker to tenfold again? What happened to these plants in a strong and prosperous Belarus?

Borisov: "Ekran", Factory of musical instruments ("piano")
Brest: "Carpets of Brest", EMZ, "Tsvetotron"
Vileyka: Zenit
Vitebsk: Capacitor plant, KIM, Vinodelchesky
Gomel: Factory of color kinescopes
Grodno: Car radio factory
Dzerzhinsk: Pilot Mechanical Plant
Minsk: Machine-tool building named after Kirov, Ball-bearing, Porcelain, Fittings, Worsted, Gears, Electrotechnical named after. Kozlov, polygraph factory named after Y.Kolas, MPOVT them. Ordzhonikidze, Toy Factory "Mir"
Mogilev: Zenit, Strommashina
Molodechno: Sputnik, Electromodul

Our and neighboring presidential candidates: who is richer?
Lukashenka earns one and a half million rubles a day, and the Ukrainian candidate earns $88,000.

Member of the Belarusian Popular Front Grigory Kostusev earned 206.400 Russian rubles ( $6.920), had a residential building in the Belynichi district (67.1 m 2), and together with his wife - a garage in Shklov, a Lancia Zeta car and a Zubrenok trailer.

The president Alexander Lukashenko earned 94.539.101 rubles for the year ( $34.630, or by $2.885 per month). He still had no real estate and vehicles.

legal adviser Alexey Mikhalevich earned 75.392.700 rubles in a year ( $27.615); in joint ownership with his wife declared half of the apartment with a total area of ​​42.8 m 2 and the car Skoda Felicia.

Poet Vladimir Neklyaev indicated income in the amount of 22.676.977 rubles ( 8.300 dollars) And 250 euro. Together with his wife, he owned a Minsk apartment with an area of ​​98.6 m 2 and a Fiat Brava passenger car.

Economist Yaroslav Romanchuk declared 6,930,765 rubles of income ( $2.540) and a Minsk apartment with an area of ​​60.8 m2.

Vice Chairman, Christian Business Initiative Vitaly Rymashevsky was able to earn 14.353.000 rubles ( $5.255), together with his wife, acquired half a house in Zaslavl with a total area of ​​​​11.2 m2 and a Mitsubishi Space Wagon passenger car.

Diplomat Andrei Sannikov in 2009 received no income at all. He owned a house in the Borisovsky district (67.2 m 2), an apartment in Minsk (44.3 m 2), a garage in the capital, an Opel Vectra car and, together with his wife, a Toyota Camry car.

Leader of the organizing committee for the creation of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada) Nikolai Statkevich earned 8.199.960 rubles ( 3.000 dollars) I didn’t have any real estate or vehicles.

Economist Viktor Tereshchenko also in 2009 did not earn a single ruble. He owned an apartment in the capital (80.3 m 2), and together with his wife - a Dodge Caravan and a PKK 82 trailer. Interestingly, Internet search engines do not know anything about such a trailer model.

Publisher Dmitry Uss earned 38.741.546 rubles ( $14.190), in the declaration he also indicated two residential buildings in Minsk (368.7 m 2 and 467.6 m 2) and seven-eighths of a residential building in the Myadel district (47.9 m 2), an apartment in Minsk (89.2 m 2 ), two land plots of 0.06 hectares each in Minsk and five-eighths of a Toyota Corolla car.

Sergei Gaidukevich withdrew from the elections, and what happened to his tractors with semi-trailers - we do not know.

In May 2012, Alexander Lukashenko mentioned how much he earns: they say, his salary is about two thousand dollars a month, and in some even smaller countries - about 150 thousand per year. But " it's not about me”, stressed Alexander Lukashenko. At the beginning of 2013, he stated that he receives income only from his salary: “ You always see my declaration before presidential elections. Please read. I have no other income besides my salary.". A year later, he let slip that he was getting about 30 million rubles per month(about $3.130): « He asked me to show the salary of hockey functionaries. Petrov, director of the club ... Ivanov, Sidorov and others. 92 million per month! Three times more than the president's salary».

2015: Lukashenka earns one and a half million rubles a day

By the current elections, the voters again have only four candidates. Here are the declarations submitted by the candidates this time . The dollar exchange rate last year fluctuated from 9,500 to 11,850 rubles - let's take the average value.

Election Campaign Oldtimer Sergei Gaidukevich for 2014 received 263.158.324 rubles ( $24.630) is salary, and pension, and monthly allowance, and income from abroad, and money from the sale of a car. There are no more residential buildings and land plots in personal or joint ownership with his wife, but there are two cars: a BMW 730 passenger car and a Nissan X-Trail “parquet” SUV. Interestingly, the wife of Sergei Gaidukevich has a residential building with a land plot in the Minsk region, and three apartments in the capital at once: two “odnushki” and “kopeck piece” (30, 25 and 35 m 2, respectively).

Activist of the company "Tell the Truth" Tatiana Korotkevich last year earned 60.086.098 rubles ( $5.625) is the salary and income under the donation agreement. There are no real estate and vehicles in personal possession.

Alexander Lukashenko last year he received only a salary - everything is the same as in previous election campaigns. The total income for the year amounted to 551.761.258 rubles ( $51.640, or by 4.300 dollars per month). As you can see, from election to election, the presidential allowance is growing. The head of state still does not have real estate or vehicles. We found an interesting incident in the declaration addressed to the president's wife, Galina Rodionovna Lukashenko. All previous election declarations (2001, 2006, 2010) indicated that she owns a residential building in Shklov with an area of ​​174 m 2 . In the current declaration, its area is designated as 115 m 2 .

Leader of the Belarusian Cossacks Nikolai Ulakhovich received salaries and pensions in the amount of 243.502.475 rubles ( $22.790). He owns two residential buildings in the Lyakhovichsky and Chashniksky districts (82 and 45 m 2) and a land plot of 0.25 hectares. The wife has a garage box and four administrative/commercial premises in Minsk and its environs with a total area of ​​124 m 2 .

We see that twice - in 2000 and 2005 - Alexander Lukashenko was not in first place in terms of income, but only in second place: after Vladimir Goncharik and Sergei Gaidukevich, respectively. True, Goncharik outran the president, among other things, by selling a car and a garage, and Gaidukevich by selling a car and receiving compensation for moral damage. In terms of wages/pensions, the incumbent head of state was certainly in the lead in those cases as well.

Russia: the president earned 77 times less than the minister

In April last year, the president and members of the Russian government reported on income for 2013. Vladimir Putin received 3.672.208 rubles for the year ( $58.200, or by 4.850 dollars per month); he owned a land plot of one and a half thousand "squares", an apartment (77 m 2) and a garage, as well as GAZ M-21 Volga, GAZ M21-R Volga, VAZ-2121 Niva and a trailer " Scythian".

Dmitry Medvedev earned 4,259,525 rubles and 23 kopecks in 2013 ( $67.505, or by $5.625 per month). He owns an apartment (367.8 m 2) and two cars: GAZ M-20 Pobeda and GAZ-21 Volga.

Compared to 2012, the incomes of both the president and the prime minister have fallen: Putin's by 2.1 million rubles, Medvedev's by 1.5 million rubles. According to presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, this is due to the fact that in 2012 the "tandem" received compensation for unused vacations. The main persons of the country earn far from the most in the government. The record holder was the Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Abyzov: for the year he "raised" 282.908.645 rubles and 20 kopecks ( $4.483.555, or by $373.630 per month).

Interestingly, a week after the publication of the declaration of income, Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On improving the remuneration of persons holding certain public positions in the Russian Federation." By this decree, "in order to ensure social guarantees," the salaries of the President and the Prime Minister are increased by 2.65 times.

Ukraine: Richest Candidate Earned Nearly $90,000 a Day

On the eve of the 2010 presidential election in Ukraine, candidates reported on their income for 2008. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko turned out to be one of the most modest employees: she earned 386,000 hryvnias (approx. 48 thousand dollars). The former head of the National Bank Serhiy Tigipko earned the most: 20.26 million hryvnia ( $2.5 million).

More than two dozen Ukrainian candidates went to the early elections in 2014. According to the data for 2013, Sergey Tigipko received the most money again: in total, salary, interest and dividends, the sale of securities and property brought the businessman 263,579,662 hryvnias ( $32.202.770, or by 2.683.565 dollars per month). In second place is Petro Poroshenko: 51.837.681 hryvnia ( $6.333.255, or by $527.770 per month). Most of the other candidates were content with incomes of only a few hundred thousand hryvnia per year.