You can never predict how and when a relationship between a man and a woman may end. This is a thankless job! Especially if he is the president, and she is a doctor. Will it be a happy story or a tragic one, time will tell.
Where is mom looking?
Today, the connection between Irina Abelskaya and Alexander Lukashenko is more like a tragicomedy. There is a lot of gossip about her, the most incredible rumors, but at the level of assumptions and conjectures. And it's all about Kolya Lukashenko! The caring president of Belarus, gentle and touching, takes the blue-eyed boy with him everywhere: to parades, hayfields, government meetings, to the Pope, to the UN General Assembly. A small presidential copy in expensive uniforms! Is it really interesting for Kolya to unquestioningly follow his father? Where is mom looking? Where is she? Why, answering the question: “Who is educating him except you?” Lukashenka frankly admits: “No one!”. And then the president clarifies that he is not divorced, but has a son from another woman. No more details.
Presumably, this "other woman" is Irina Abelskaya, whose photo you see in the article. She was called the president's favorite doctor, his right hand. At the time shewas considered the most powerful woman in Belarus.
Irina Abelskaya: biography
Irina was born in 1965 in border Brest, left for the capital and entered the Minsk State Medical Institute at the Pediatric Faculty, which she successfully graduated in 1988. I met my first love while studying. Soon a wedding, a child, family problems - in a word, like everyone else. The marriage was short-lived. After the divorce, Irina was left alone with her son in her arms. She did not return home, to Brest, and began working in one of the Minsk hospitals. She was in good standing, although she did not stand out in anything special. Sweet, kind, efficient. Her interests included work and her son. And fate was already preparing surprises.
The president's favorite doctor
1994 gives Belarus its first president. It becomes Alexander Lukashenko. He immediately starts a new order in his environment and gives the order to find a new personal doctor. In complete confusion, the subordinates selected applicants according to the following criteria: a young woman, unmarried, it is possible with a son. Irina Abelskaya, whose photo is presented to your attention in the article, was completely suitable in all respects.
This year was a turning point for the ordinary endocrinologist Irina Abelskaya: she soared up the career ladder, she was appointed as a therapist at the presidential hospital, followed by an urgent transfer to the country's most prestigious he alth resort, assignment of the highest qualification category and, finally, a new duty - everywhere to accompanypresident. Abelskaya always followed him. During the visits, Irina stood nearby as the first lady, and the lawful wife of the president, who had two sons from Lukashenka, was at that time in good he alth in the village. The President did not hesitate to openly say that he had not lived with Galina Rodionovna for many years.
Abelskaya Irina became his shadow and often carried out such instructions from the president, which were not at all part of the doctor's duties. Many high officials, fearing to fall under the hot hand of Alexander, turned to Abelskaya for help, who rarely refused. Modest Abelskaya Irina quickly gained authority, became indispensable. Through it, many important issues were resolved. But it was not always possible to tame Lukashenka's tough temper, it was especially difficult to protect him from other women who dreamed of taking the place of "the president's personal doctor."
Mistakes of youth
Irina Abelskaya zealously guarded her happiness, tried to completely subdue her beloved. Sometimes she crossed the boundaries of what was permitted, which irritated the vindictive Alexander. Once, at a banquet, Lukashenka became interested in dancing with the minister's young wife. Without waiting for the end of the w altz, Irina came up and broke up a couple. Mistakes were repeated more and more often, and in response, she began to receive insults in front of outsiders. The situation was heating up. Probably, wanting to loosen control over himself, Lukashenko loaded Irina with a new job, appointing her as the head physician, and her mother as the Minister of He alth.
Birth of a son
In August 2004, Irina had a son weighing four kilograms. The birth took place in complete secrecy, with round-the-clock protection from the Presidential Security Service. Doctors and midwives of the clinic were strictly forbidden to disclose any information. Only close relatives could visit the young mother. They named the boy Nicholas. After being discharged, the young mother wanted to register her son herself, but she was not allowed to. Apparently, the birth of a child was the last opportunity to finally bind Lukashenka, to obtain a legal status. But nothing happened.
Unenviable share
Then followed the collapse of all hopes. Irina was fired from her job with a scandal, Lukashenka himself criticized the work of an institution subordinate to her. Left without support, Irina Abelskaya disappears from the field of view of ubiquitous journalists for several years. The most unbelievable rumors spread. They said that Lukashenka married her to his bodyguard, that she allegedly went to Sochi to work in a sanatorium, that she was being treated in one of the Minsk psychiatric hospitals, that she was not in this world at all. Did Irina Abelskaya really die? Death befell her mother, Lyudmila Postoyalko, who at that time was the Minister of He alth of the Republic. And Irina Stepanovna herself was alive and well, although for a long time she could not find a job.
Life goes on
What does Irina Abelskaya do? Where is she now? Irina Stepanovna worked for several years in an ordinary Minsk polyclinic, doing ultrasound. Over time, the president forgave everythingand raised her again: he returned the positions and titles, but he took his son Kolya to himself. In November 2009, she returned to the position of head physician, in 2010 she was returned to the Interdepartmental Commission of the Republic of Belarus. Irina Abelskaya, Professor of the Department of Radiation Diagnostics, took an active part in the work of the sleep research laboratory. At the moment, she was appointed director of the Republican Research Center for Oncology and Medical Radiology in Borovlyany.
In general, everything is worthy with a career. But something tells me: not everything is so serene in Irina's life. The very smart, but incredibly sad eyes of an elderly woman look from a photo on a personal Facebook page. And her last publication (dated October 15, 2015) is the beautiful poems of the Georgian poet translated by B. Pasternak "The Blue Color", the color of hope. “How beautiful without embellishment. This is the color of your favorite eyes. Whose eyes does she see? But the eyes of the father and son are just like that - blue, the colors of hope! What is he dreaming about? It remains only to guess. This is such a sad story.
They say, apart from work, Irina Abelskaya is nowhere to be found…
