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  1. Alexander Rutskoy was born in Proskuriv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (today Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine). Rutskoy graduated from High Air Force School in Barnaul (1971) and Gagarin Air Force Academy in Moscow (1980). He had reached the rank of Soviet Air Force colonel when he was sent to Afghanistan. Alexander Rutskoy in 1992.

  2. Alexander Rutskoy. Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoi ( Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Руцко́й; born 16 September 1947) is a Russian politician and a former Soviet military officer. [ 1] Rutskoy served as the only Vice President of Russia from 10 July 1991 to 4 October 1993, and as the Governor of Kursk Oblast from ...

  3. v. t. e. In September and October 1993, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country's parliament. Yeltsin performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament and instituting a presidential rule by decree system. The crisis ended with Yeltsin using military ...

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  4. Rutskoy, Khasbulatov and others, under the banner of constitutional legitimacy and legality, summoned everyone who was in opposition to what Yeltsin was trying to do. This included a very wide spectrum of people who ranged from the most ultra-nationalist, anti-Semitic, vicious people you could imagine to many of the most, I would say, liberal ...

  5. In the end, Rutskoy and the leaders of the attempted coup were arrested, but all were amnestied in 1994. In December 1993, a new Constitution was adapted on a referendum and new Duma elections ...

  6. Aleksandr Rutskoy. Born September 16, 1947. Image from www.pressa.spb.ru. A Russian politician, former Soviet military officer and Vice-President of Russia in 1991-1993. Aleksandr Rutskoy was born in Khmelnitsky in Ukraine, into a family with rich military traditions: his father was in the tank forces and his grandfather served in the railway ...

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  8. The House of the Government of the Russian Federation, known as the “White House,” burns. On Oct. 4, 1993, at the height of the crisis between the executive branch and the legislature, President Boris Yeltsin ordered an attack on the government center. Courtesy of Louis Sell. Anti-Yeltsin activists, who had barricaded themselves inside the ...

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