Citizens of Belarus can easily name the most popular child in their country. This is Nikolai Lukashenko, the son of the President of the state. For several years now, the boy can be met next to his father at important government events, official meetings. At the age of 14, he had already met many world and religious leaders. Teen media is often called the Little Prince. Father tells a lot about him. We offer readers a closer look at Kolya Lukashenko.
First public appearance
A lot of Belarusians are in the know when the birthday of Nikolai Lukashenko. This is August 31st. In 2018, the teenager turned 14 years old. True, until 2008, the Belarusian president hid the boy from the public.
However, the media were aware that Alexander Lukashenko has a younger, third son. For the first time, Nikolai appeared in public in April 2008 - he participated with his father on a community work day at the Minsk Arena construction site. However, what kind of child was with the president, no one explained to the public.
An illegitimate son?
Alexander Lukashenko himself was then still married to the mother of his eldest sons, Galina Lukashenko. However, according to him, they do not live together from the very beginning of the presidential term. After the subbotnik, Alexander Lukashenko announced the media of his son as a successor to the presidency.
But why has the “illegitimate” son since then everywhere accompanied the Belarusian leader? The president explains everything simply: Nikolai Lukashenko cannot stay with other adults, the boy needs to follow his father all the time.
Alexander Lukashenko does not believe that children outside marriage should be hidden. He is against talking about the child "not mine", "stranger". By the way, the Russian president also supports him in this. Vladimir Vladimirovich is sure that children are a divine gift, there are simply no superfluous or strange children.
Mother boy
Curious citizens from the moment a child appeared in public tried to find out who the mother of Nikolai Lukashenko was. The official answer was stingy: "she works as a doctor."
But nevertheless, the journalists managed to find out the facts so expected by the public. Mom of Nikolai Lukashenko - Irina Abelskaya. She holds the post of chief physician at the Presidential Administration Clinic. In the past, she was also a personal doctor of the head of state. There is evidence that Irina Abelskaya is the daughter of the late Minister of Health of Belarus L. Postoyalko.
How close the son is to his mother is unknown. Irina lives in Drozdy, and Lukashenko with her son - in Ozerny (located near the town of Ostroshitsky). At official events, Irina Abelskaya can be met by chance, in extras. But the place of the spouse near the head of state is occupied by completely different young women.
The media also reported that Abelskaya’s career largely depended on her relationship with the President - she either enjoyed the protection of her, or “fell into disgrace”. For example, in 2007, a woman was fired with a scandal, having lost all her regalia.
She had to work as an ordinary ultrasound diagnostician, but in 2009 she again took the post of chief doctor of the clinic of the Presidential Administration. After this incident, criticism was not addressed to her. Irina Abelskaya, on the contrary, participates in medical events, shares her experience as a manager of a medical institution.
About her son, Nikolai Lukashenko, she speaks dryly in the press. He only says that he wants him to get a good education, choose an interesting job, bring joy and benefit to others. At formal events where mother and son are invited, they are usually not together.
Brothers
There are three brothers with Nikolai Lukashenko: these are Victor and Dmitry Lukashenko, who occupy high positions in Belarus (by father), and Dmitry Abelsky, who works as an ophthalmologist (by mother).
Their relationship is hidden, but Alexander Lukashenko himself admits that the boy is jealous of his older brothers, interrupts conversations about them, and requires increased attention to himself. The child explains this by saying that they are adults and they already have their own children. However, the President says that Nikolai has a fairly good relationship with Dmitry and Victor.
School
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lukashenko went to school in 2011. He was 7 years old at that time. However, in Belarus it is more customary to send children to school from the age of six. The media had many options, but on September 1, the boy went to study in a rural (but with two pools) school in Ostroshitsky town.
In 2016, Nikolai Lukashenko (photos of the son of the Belarusian President are presented in the article) told the journalist about his studies. Sits at the third desk with the neighbor Ksyusha. My favorite subject is geography.
Hobbies
He is busy in theatrical school productions. The boy managed to play the starship, Kai, the assistant to Santa Claus, the lion from Madagascar. In addition, he has two more serious hobbies - hockey training and piano lessons. At the same time, he makes music a few hours a week.
Nikolai loves to bother with animals in the presidential economy. These are goats, cows, peacocks, horses, rabbits, ponies and three ostriches.
At the same time, the boy has time to study at school according to the usual program. Given how much he accompanies his father on international trips, this is hard to believe. But the school leadership confirms this fact.
Meetings with world leaders
In the biography of Nikolai Lukashenko, there are also meetings with the two heads of the Roman Catholic Church. In 2009, he participated in the official meeting of the Belarusian President with Pope Benedict XVI, and in 2016 with Pope Francis. It was not without gifts. The boy handed Pope Benedict a primer, and Pope Francis a holographic icon, a copy of the cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk, and a carriage model.
Moreover, at 10, Nikolai took part in the UN General Assembly. The child met with former President of the United States Barack Obama and his wife. Several times he was on business visits to his father in China.
This boy with an amazing fate in his 14 years already managed to shake hands with Vladimir Putin, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Hugo Chavez, Ilmakh Aliyev and many other world leaders. In 2009, the former President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev at a military training gave Nikolai a magnificent gift - a golden gun.
Benefit or good?
Of course, any boy would envy Kolya Lukashenko, the opportunities that the youngest son of the Belarusian leader has. Basically, high-ranking officials, on the contrary, seek to hide their family affairs from the general public, provide the press with scant information about their personal lives. But not Alexander Lukashenko! He has long sought to make his youngest son a recognizable media person.
So, the boy has already managed to take several times with his father a military parade on May 9, in honor of the Victory of the USSR in World War II. At the festive event of 2009, the child was completely dressed in military uniform. Although the President no longer attracts his son to such dressing up, the boy’s childhood can hardly be called ordinary even for a child of a political leader. Many media are sure that his father uses Nicholas to create his positive image.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with that, but it’s one thing to participate with the pope on subbotniks, dig potatoes together and travel the world. But there are shots on the network in which the boy drives without a license driving a motorcycle and combine harvester. For publication in the media, at the age of 13, he posed for the camera, posing as an ordinary passenger of a reserved seat car. All this ambiguously affects the formation of the character and psyche of a teenager. However, his high-ranking father knows better how to raise his son.
Relationship with father
What you can be sure of sure - Alexander Lukashenko really loves his youngest son, not hesitating to call him a “baby” in communication with journalists and leaders of other states. Sincerely fatherly feeling is difficult to play on camera.
Journalists note that Kolya Lukashenko is one of the few who today in the state can object to his leader. For example, the boy negatively assessed the father’s idea to postpone the start of the school shift from 8 to 9 in the morning. Nikolai objected: how can working parents be able to take their child to school? It’s not the President’s son who’s going.
But in relations between the Belarusian leader and his youngest son, there are usual parental problems. The child, like many of his peers, is passionate about computer games. Father strictly regulates the time he spends on the Internet. Alexander Lukashenko complains: the son says that we need to search the network for school information. Searches for two minutes, and plays "Tanks" an hour.
But in matters with social networks, Alexander Lukashenko is categorical, so you will not find Kolya’s account in any of the popular social networks. The Belarusian leader believes that they destroy the psyche of children.
Nikolai Lukashenko is the most popular child in Belarus. We briefly got acquainted with the biography of this boy. Perhaps the future Belarusian leader, as his father prophesies.