Galina Lukashenko is the wife of the Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko, and is the current First Lady of Belarus. Galina Lukashenko is estranged from Alexander who has had at least one extra-marital affair that produced a son, Nikolai.
Galina Lukashenko: Profile Summary
| Full Name | Galina Rodionovna Lukashenko |
| Famous as | First Lady of Belarus |
| Age | 67 years old as of 2022 |
| Date of Birth | 1 January 1955 |
| Place of Birth | Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Nationality | Belarusian |
| Ethnicity | Belarusian |
| Children | Viktor Lukashenko, Dmitry Lukashenko |
| Parents | Father- James Brolin Mother – Jane Cameron Agee |
She was born on Galina Rodionovna Lukashenko on New Year’s Day in 1955 in the family of Rodion Georgievich Zhelnerovich (1928-1983) from Brest and Elena Fedorovna Zhelnerovich (1929-2019) from Slutsk. As of 2022, she is of the age, 67 years.
How did the President of Belarus meet his wife, Galina Lukashenko
She met Alexander Lukashenko while still in high school in the village of Ryzhkovichi, and married him in 1975, upon graduation from the Mogilev Pedagogical Institute (now Mogilev State University). At this time, she worked in a kindergarten. Since January 1998, she has been the head of the department of the Mogilev Regional Executive Committee for the Improvement of the Population.
Galina Lukashenko did not move with her husband to Minsk at the beginning of his presidential career, instead of living on Zemlyanichnaya Street in Shklow, where she has since lived. She does not accompany her husband at public events and reportedly rarely sees him. One of the earlier moments when the couple was seen together was the year Lukashenko was elected when he was on a state visit to Israel.
Unlike her husband or her sons, Galina is among the Lukashenko family not on the sanctions list by either the United States or the European Union.
Galina Lukashenko’s sons
Galina Lukashenko, the first lady of Belarus is the mother of two children, Viktor Lukashenko and Dmitry Lukashenko, and her husband and children make up her family. However, Galina and her husband are separated due to her husband’s extramarital affair.
Similarly, her husband’s affair resulted in the birth of a kid, Nikoli. Viktor and Dimitry, two of Galina’s kids, are her only children. Viktor is the He is the current President of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus, and formerly served as the National Security Advisor to his father, the President of Belarus, who is often considered the last dictator in Europe.
Galina Lukashenko’s son, Viktor graduated from the International Relations faculty of the Belarusian State University in 1998 and served his mandatory military duty at the Belarusian Border Guard Service between 1998-2001. He later worked at the Foreign Ministry of Belarus and at a military exports company, Agat.
Galina Lukashenko’s son Dimitry is the head of the Presidential Sports Club and is a graduate of Belarusian State University’s International Relations Faculty. In 2011, after the wave of repressions that followed the 2010 presidential election in Belarus, 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. In the EU Council’s decision, Lukashenko has been described as “Businessman, with active participation in financial operations involving the Lukashenka family.” The sanctions were lifted in 2016.
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