The president of Belarus—Aleksandr Lukashenko—has given a medal to an antisemitic ideologue who serves as the editor of his presidential administration’s newsletter, according to a January 6, 2006 report by the opposition news site Kharitiya 97. President Lukashenko reportedly awarded Eduard Skobelev a prize for “spiritual development” despite complaints by Jewish activists last month that his latest work “Stalin’s Testament” contains personal attacks against Belarusian Jewish leaders. Mr. Skobelev has a long reputation for promoting antisemitism—in 1990, he allegedly proposed the use of guns to solve the "Jewish problem" and more recently he argued that “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was a genuine document.

In December 2005, another long-time presidential aide, Viktor Kuchinsky, reportedly called for the violent expulsion of migrants from the Caucasus.

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