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Leonid Pasechnik
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Russian politician and head of the Lugansk People's Republic
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Vinony files it under 1970 births, Anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Ukraine and Donetsk Military Political College of Engineers and Signal Corps alumni.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Prime minister
- Sergey Kozlov
- Preceded by
- Igor Plotnitsky
- Succeeded by
- Anatoly Antonov
- Born
- ( 1970-03-15 ) 15 March 1970 (age 56) , Voroshilovgrad , Ukrainian SSR , USSR , (now Luhansk )
- Party
- United Russia (2021– present )
- Other political affiliations
- Peace to Luhanshchyna (2014– present )
- Alma mater
- Donetsk Military-Political College
- Awards
- Medal For Military Service to Ukraine
- Allegiance
- Russia (2022–present) Formerly Ukraine (1993–2014) Luhansk People's Republic (2014–2017)
- Branch service
- Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ministry of State Security of the Luhansk People's Republic
- Years of service
- 1993–present
- Rank
- Major General (MSS)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leonid
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Luhansk
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Political party
- United Russia
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Military branch
- Security Service of Ukraine
- Military rank
- major general
- Image
- Leonid Pasechnik (cropped, 2022-02-21).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1970-03-15
- name in native language
- Леонид Иванович Пасечник
- Commons category
- Leonid Pasechnik
- social media followers
- 2845
- allegiance
- Russia
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- WikiProject Russia
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Encyclopedic overview
Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Па́сечник; Ukrainian: Леонід Іванович Пасічник, romanized: Leonid Ivanovych Pasichnyk; born 15 March 1970) is a Russian politician who has served as head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) since 2017. He holds the position in acting capacity ever since the Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2022. Pasechnik had previously held office as the LPR's Minister of State Security from 2014 to 2018.
Prior to his political career, Pasechnik served in the Security Service of Ukraine until the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, which he supported.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leonid Pasechnik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.