What is Alexey Kazannik?
[[File:Alexei Kazannik (cropped).jpg|thumb|Alexey Kazannik, 1990s]] '''Alexey Ivanovich Kazannik''' ({{lang-ru|Алексе́й Ива́нович Каза́нник}}; 26 July 1941 – 2 June 2019) was a [[Russia]]n lawyer and politician. He was born in [[Horodnia Raion]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]. He studied law at [[Irkutsk State University]] and graduated in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kvnews.ru/people/k/488/|title=Казанник Алексей Иванович|lang=ru|date=19 November 2008|website=KVnews.ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122232955/http://kvnews.ru/people/k/488/|archive-date=22 November 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1989, he became known for giving his seat in the [[Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union]] to [[Boris Yeltsin]]. From 1993 to 1994, Kazannik was [[Prosecutor General of Russia]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Felkay|first=Andrew|year=2002|title=Yeltsin's Russia and the West|url=https://archive.org/details/yeltsinsrussiawe0000felk|page=[https://archive.org/details/yeltsinsrussiawe0000felk/page/28 28]|isbn=978-0275965389}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-14-mn-57631-story.html|title=Former Top Russian Official Blames 'Immoral Power' for Nation's Crisis : Politics: Alexei Kazannik, who gave up his post as prosecutor general, says Yeltsin is manipulated by his top aides.|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=14 May 1994|author=Goldberg, Carey|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> Kazannik later served as Deputy Governor of [[Omsk Oblast]] from 1995 to 2003. He also taught law at [[Omsk State University]].<ref name=CR/> Kazannik died after a long illness on 2 June 2019 in [[Omsk]]. He was 77.<ref name=CR>{{Cite news|url=https://en.crimerussia.com/gover/russia-s-most-famous-ex-prosecutor-dies/|title=Russia’s most famous ex-prosecutor dies|website=Crime Russia|date=2 June 2019|access-date=2 June 2019|archive-date=2 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602125717/https://en.crimerussia.com/gover/russia-s-most-famous-ex-prosecutor-dies/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflis