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Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ле́бедь; 20 April 1950 – 28 April 2002) was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the Airborne Troops before running for president in the 1996 Russian presidential election.
This report offers a detailed portrait of retired Russian Army Lieutenant General Aleksandr I. Lebed, who first rose to prominence in 1993 as the commander of Russia’s 14th Army in Moldova and later was appointed security advisor in 1996 by the reelected President Boris Yeltsin.
May 21, 2018 · A former paratrooper in the Russian Army, General Alexander Lebed (born 1950) served briefly as Russia's national security chief under president Boris Yeltsin before moving on to become one of Yeltsin's most probable successors. He is regarded as a fierce nationalist and an outspoken critic of corruption in Russian business and government.
Apr 28, 2002 · With his gravelly voice, trademark broken nose and tough-talking manner, Alexander Lebed was one of the most well-known public figures in Russia.
Jun 1, 2002 · Lebed was born in the southern Cossack city of Novocherkassk in 1950, and his boyhood taught him some of the harsher lessons of Russian politics. In 1962, he watched Soviet troops gun down hundreds of workers in his hometown, bringing a quick end to one of the few labor strikes in Soviet history.
Oct 13, 1996 · ALEKSANDR LEBED, THE Russian peacemaker who has devoted his life to war, is rushing to Chechnya again, eager to conclude talks with his separatist adversaries and to end the searing...
Apr 29, 2002 · Aleksandr I Lebed, blunt-spoken Soviet paratroop commander who later played crucial supporting role in birth of Russian democracy, dies in helicopter crash in Siberia with six other people; was...
