{"id":1434,"date":"2023-08-06T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=1434"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"former-belarusian-trade-union-chief-and-lukasenka-ally-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/1434\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Belarusian trade union chief and \u0141uka\u0161enka ally dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 6,&nbsp;<em>BPN<\/em><\/strong>. Leanid Kozik, a former ally of Belarusian ruler Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka who led the country&#8217;s government-run&nbsp;trade union federation for 12 years, has died at age 75, the federation says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He served as deputy prime minister and deputy head of the presidential office before becoming chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (FTUB) in 2002. He made it a pro-regime organization after the&nbsp;previous chairman, U\u0142adzimir Han\u010daryk, had challenged \u0141uka\u0161enka in the presidential election in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kozik also chaired the Belarusian delegation to&nbsp;a joint commission on trade and economic cooperation with Iraq. He was named in a 2005 UN report as a beneficiary of contracts under the Oil-for-Food Programme, which allowed Iraq to sell oil in exchange for humanitarian goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kozik stepped down as the FTUB leader in 2014, and was replaced by Michai\u0142 Orda, who holds this&nbsp;post at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6,&nbsp;BPN. Leanid Kozik, a former ally of Belarusian ruler Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka who led the country&#8217;s government-run&nbsp;trade union federation for 12 years, has died at age 75, the federation says. 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