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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.
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.
Apr 29, 2002 · Aleksandr I. Lebed, a blunt-spoken Soviet paratroop commander who later played a crucial supporting role in the birth of Russian democracy, was killed today in a helicopter crash in far southern...
May 21, 2018 · Alexander Ivanovich Lebed. 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.
Apr 28, 2002 · A profile of the late Russian army general and politician who refused to shoot fellow Russians in 1991, brokered peace in Chechnya, and became governor of Krasnoyarsk. Learn about his life, career, and death in a helicopter crash in 2002.
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 conflict...
