Planned public gatherings of more than three people are prohibited without prior approval and there’s even a ban on clapping in public just for good measure. Frighteningly there’s a block on unsanctioned “action or lack of action” in public places. So basically, you can’t do anything right.
Non-conformity is frowned upon; one artist was arrested for stacking three large cubes on top of each other in a public place. The capital is also noticeably devoid of homeless people, buskers and the disabled. Everything must be homogenous. Lukashenko famously once said “It’s better to be a dictator than gay” so you can kind of infer his stance on homosexuality from that.
Lukashenko himself is a sensitive soul (as well as an incidental sadist) so it’s illegal to take the Mickey out of him. State television is not allowed to film him from behind because of his appalling comb-over.
Lukashenko was the illegitimate son of a peasant woman and because of that was mocked at school. He rose to become the head of a pig farm and after a short hop skip and a jump made it to leader of a country. Quite impressive really.
He plays for his own presidential hockey team which no other domestic team would dare beat. Here he is with Putin looking miffed:
Lukashenko’s home is in a leafy Minsk suburb which once hosted a bunch of foreign ambassadors. He wasn’t too keen on the intrusion so he cut off their water and gas supply until they buggered off.
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