Viktor Lukashenko

Viktor Lukashenko
Виктор Александрович Лукашенко
Viktor Lukashenko (left) follows his father Alexander Lukashenko and youngest brother Nikolay during Victory Day festivities in 2012
National Security Advisor to the President of Belarus
Incumbent
Assumed office 2005
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Member of the Secutiry Council of the Republic of Belarus
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Personal details
Born	November 28, 1975 (Age 41) Mogilev, BSSR Soviet Union
Children	4
Mother	Galina Lukashenko
Father	Alexander Lukashenko
Relatives	Dmitry Lukashenko Nikolay Lukashenko

Viktor Lukashenko (Russian: Виктор Александрович Лукашенко, Belarusian: Віктар Лукашэнка, Viktar Lukashenka, born November 28, 1975) is a Belarusian statesman and the elder son of the country's authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko. He has been accused of human rights violation and placed on the sanctions lists of the United States and the European Union.

Viktor Lukashenko has graduated from the International Relations faculty of the Belarusian State University and served his mandatory military duty at the Belarusian Border Guard Service.

He later worked at the Foreign Ministry of Belarus and at a military exports company, Agat.

Since 2005, Viktor Lukashenko is an Assistant on National Security to his father president Alexander Lukashenko.

Since January 2007 he is a member of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus.

In 2011, after the wave of repressions that followed the 2010 presidential election in Belarus, Viktor Lukashenko became subject to an EU travel ban and asset freeze as part of a sanctions list of 208 individuals responsible for political repressions, electoral fraud and propaganda. The sanctions were lifted in 2016.

According to the EU Council's decision, Viktor Lukashenko “has played a key role in the repressive measures implemented against the democratic opposition and civil society. As a key member of the State Security Council, he was responsible for the coordination of repressive measures against the democratic opposition and civil society, in particular in the crackdown of the demonstration on 19 December 2010.”

Besides that, Viktor Lukashenko remains one of the few people on the sanctions list of the United States.