The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is called “the last dictator of Europe.” Well-known journalists Pavel Sheremet and Svetlana Kalinkina are personally acquainted with the Belarusian leader and knew him long before the strange director of the state farm became the president of Belarus. The book “The Accidental President” is an attempt to reveal the Lukashenko phenomenon and separate the fiction of Belarusian official propaganda from the real facts in the life of the Belarusian president and his entourage. Every fact described in the book “The Accidental President” is confirmed by documents and witness testimony. The book was published in 2004.