Lukashenka’s phone talks (infographics)

Alyaksandr Lukashenka criticized the governmental communications service a lot. No wonder – Russian pranker Vovan222 played a trick on the Belarusian President in June. He phoned Lukashenka and introduced himself as Victor Yanukovich’s son. He asked for political asylum for his father. Then the recorded conversation was uploaded to the Internet by someone.

"It is not okay when you cannot talk to a state leader normally. There are a number of complaints about the work of this service,” Lukashenka said accepting a report prepared by state secretary of the Security Council Alyaksandr Myazhuyeu.

Euroradio decided to check whom Alyaksandr Lukashenka talked to not long ago.

It turned out that most of his conversations in spring and summer were with Vladimir Putin – 10 phone calls. Lukashenka talked to the President of Kazakhstan 5 times and 4 times – to the Ukrainian President. He also talked to Turchinov, Kuchma, Nikolić, Tusk and Berdimuhamedow. All the conversations were officially reported by the President’s press service. There could be other phone talks we do not know about.

The main topic was the situation in Ukraine, economic sanctions and preparation for the summit in Minsk.

Interestingly, Putin talked to Posroshenko more – 6 times. He had almost the same number of phone conversations with Nazarbayev and Lukashenka – 5 and 6.

Lukashenka talked to Putin, Nazarbayev and Poroshenko most of all. Putin talked to Merkel (31 times), Hollande (14) and Obama (9).