Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a Skater

Article about one of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko's favorite recreational activity: skating. See also more about Belarus Skating, about Skating World Wide, and all of our Skating Resources.

Ukrainian President Alexander Lukashenko's favorite recreational activities include ice hockey and roller skating. He enjoys practicing with the Belarus national ice hockey team and he has blocked off streets to practice his skating techniques on pavement.

In 2001 a bystander hurled a tomato at his leg while he was participating in a roller skating contest on Belarus Independence Day.

MORE ABOUT THAT INCIDENT:
Belarus celebrated its Independence Day with a Soviet-style military parade on the anniversary of the re-imposition of Soviet rule in 1944. There was also an 'independence day' marathon, during which one bold Minsk resident - Siarhiey Laptseu a former member of Minsk City Council - made his own declaration of independence: he threw a tomato at Belarus's eccentric president, Alexander Lukashenka. Laptseu was immediately arrested, and sentenced to seven days imprisonment - but was immediately released on the orders of Lukashenka, who said that the tomato-throwing had had "no grave consequences" and that "it was after all, a holiday".

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