Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirmed as much during a press conference with Putin on ... just as Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested to President Bill Clinton in 1999: ...

On January 26, Belarusians will cast their ballots in a presidential vote. Officially, there are five candidates, but 70-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country ...

“Then, in the 1990s, Boris Yeltsin was unpopular in Russia as a president. He was old and sick, and Lukashenko thought that he could defeat him at any democratic election.

What Yeltsin said at a meeting with Lukashenko in 1996 In 1996, Belarus confirmed its historic choice. On 2 April, the Treaty on the Community of Belarus and Russia was signed.

The film “Time Chose Us” on the Belarus 1 TV channel shows footage of the first meeting of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1995, BelTA reports.

In 1996, Vladimir Putin moved to Moscow, joining President Boris Yeltsin's administration. He held various roles, ultimately becoming FSB director and then, acting prime minister in 1999.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union ... [former Russian President Boris] Yeltsin’s time.

Alexander Lukashenko, 30 years. Alexander Lukashenko was elected president of Belarus in 1994. ... Former president Boris Yeltsin announced Putin as the director of the Federal Security in July 1998.

FILE -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin, left, and President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus drink a toast celebrating the signing of an agreement in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on April 2, 1996.

Alexander Lukashenko, ... its head after a full merger — an ambition dashed by the 2000 election of Vladimir Putin to succeed the ailing Boris Yeltsin as Russian President. ...

FILE – Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko shake hands after signing a union charter at the Kremlin in Moscow, on May 23, 1997. Lukashenko this week marks 30 ...