"'Chairman' sounds folky." In Belarus they proposed to abolish the position of president
Alexander Lukashenko gives an interview to the Russian state channel. Screenshot of the broadcast “The very name president is Western and refers us to the bourgeois tradition... “Chairman of the Republic of Belarus” sounds good, in a popular way,” Sergei Syrankov, the leader of the Belarusian communists, told the state agency RIA Novosti. Syrankov is registered as a candidate for the upcoming “presidential elections”, which are scheduled to be held in the country on January 26.