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Alexander Lebed had come to Russian national attention after the The Soviet Coup of 1991 or the August Coup crushed the hopes of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that he could at least hold the union together in a decentralized form. However, in the eyes of the remaining Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conservatives, he had gone too far... Soviet Coup of 1991, in which a conspiracy of old-guard Communist hard-liners sought to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev Government portrait of Mikahail Gorbachev This image may not have information on its source. It may be usable under fair use but this has yet to be verified. It might be public domain or under a licence compatible with the GNU FDL. To the uploader: Please provide licensing... Mikhail Gorbachev's government and reverse his reforms. At the height of the crisis, the Red Army had been ordered by the Communist hard-liners to surround the White House, the seat of the Russian parliament. The conflict essentially ended when General Lebed refused to order his tanks to fire upon the building and Boris Yeltsin Official portrait of Boris Yeltsin This work is copyrighted. The individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, and subsequent persons who place it into articles assert that this qualifies as fair use of the material under United States copyright law. File history Legend... Boris Yeltsin, the president of Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Рес... Russian SFSR at that time, was able to exit the building and read a speech against the conspiracy on top of one of Lebed's tanks.

After seeing action violently quelling dissent in the Caucasus during the 1980s, Alexander Lebed was the commander of the 14th Russian Army, based in Moldova, from June 1992. The presence of his troops is generally accounted resposible for preventing a large-scale expulsion of Russian natives, though Lebed publicly expressed his disgust with the corruption and cronyism of Igor Nikolayevich Smirnov (b. 23 October 1941) is the President of the internationally unrecognized Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic (TMR, or Transnistria). Smirnov, an erstwhile Communist, served on various local councils during the Soviet era, when Transnistria was part of the Moldavian SSR. He was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of... Igor Smirnov the president of the pro-Russian This article refers to the Republic of Moldova. For information about the adjacent Romanian region, see Moldavia; for other uses see Moldova (disambiguation) The Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east. Its border with Romania follows... Dniester Moldovan Republic currently being called Transnistria or Transdniester (Russian: Приднестровье (Pridnestrovye), Romanian Transnistria, referred to as Stânga Nistrului (Left Bank of the Nistru) by official Moldovan sources). Transnistria is a region in eastern Europe. The name comes from it being... Transnistria. On May 30, 1995 he resigned his commission to enter the political arena of post-Soviet Russia. Lebed ran as a candidate in the Presidential elections were held in the The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or... 1996 Russian presidential election and finished third with 14.5% of vote in the first round of voting. Two days after the first round, the incumbent president Boris Yeltsin Official portrait of Boris Yeltsin This work is copyrighted. The individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, and subsequent persons who place it into articles assert that this qualifies as fair use of the material under United States copyright law. File history Legend... Boris Yeltsin appointed Lebed to the post of the chairman of Security Council of the The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches... Russian Federation. Lebed in turn endorsed Yeltsin in the runoff election two weeks later and Yeltsin won the runoff.

Lebed's politics were distinctly military. He endorsed General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte1 (born November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining. November Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8... Augusto Pinochet's success in Chile, saying in an article "preserving the army is the basis for preserving the government."

As a chairman of Security Council, Lebed led negotiations with Chechen president Aslan Mashadov Aslan Alivitch Maskhadov (born September 21, 1951) is a Chechen general and chief of staff during the 1994–1996 war against Russia. Maskhadov is a silent, organized military leader whom many credit with the Chechen victory in the mid_1990s. In January 1997, Maskhadov was elected President of... Aslan Maskhadov and signed the Khasavyurt Agreements which ended the The First Chechen War occurred when The Russian Federation ( Russian (русский язык) Spoken in: Russia and many other countries Region: Eastern Europe and Asia Total speakers: 280 million Ranking: 4-7 Genetic classification: Indo-European  Slavic   East Slavic... First Chechen War in August 1996. He was sacked from the Security Council by president Yeltsin in October 1996, after a conflict between Lebed and Anatoly Kulikov, the minister of interior affairs.

In September 7, 1997, an alarming story broke in which Lebed alleged that the former USSR had lost track of some "suitcase-sized" nuclear weapons.

In May 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. Years: 1995 1996 1997 - 1998 - 1999 2000 2001 Decades: 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1998 in topic: Arts Architecture - Art... 1998, Lebed won the election for the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (Красноя́рский край) (2002 pop. 2,966,000) is the second largest Russian region after Sakha Republic (Yakutia), occupying an area of 2,339,700 km², which is 13% of the countrys total... Krasnoyarsk Krai. He served in this position until his death in a helicopter crash in bad weather 2002, popular with the military to the last.

External link

• Lebed biography (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dmiguse/Russian/albio.html)
• "Alexander Lebed and suitcase nukes" (http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/Lebedbomb.html)