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Jun 27, 2024 · (AP) Alexander Lebed, the gruff former general who helped defeat the 1991 hard-line Soviet coup and stave off a Communist challenge to Russian President Boris Yeltsin five years later, was killed...
1 day ago · Alpha Group commander General Viktor Karpukhin and other senior unit officers, together with Airborne deputy commander Gen. Alexander Lebed mingled with the crowds near the White House and assessed the possibility of such an operation. Afterwards, Karpukhin and Vympel commander Colonel Boris Beskov tried to convince Ageyev that the operation ...
- 19-22 August 1991 (4 days)
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
3 days ago · Nearly two years later, Yeltsin withdrew federal forces from the devastated Chechnya under a 1996 peace agreement brokered by Alexander Lebed, Yeltsin's then-security chief. The peace deal allowed Chechnya greater autonomy but not full independence.
Jun 29, 2024 · Alpha Group commander General Viktor Karpukhin and other senior officers of the unit together with Airborne Troops deputy commander Gen. Alexander Lebed mingled with the crowds near the White House and assessed the possibility of such an operation.
11 hours ago · Alexander Lebed, then Secretary of the Security Council, began talks with the Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov in August 1996 and signed an agreement on 22/23 August; by the end of that month, the fighting ended.
Jul 4, 2024 · The Russian general Alexander Lebed who will arrive in France for a visit on Feb. 16 before travelling to Switzerland (he wasn't invited to Davos) won't be meeting with government leaders because president Jacques Chirac backs Boris Yeltsin.
Jul 10, 2024 · Shortly after becoming governor of Krasnoyarsk, general Alexander Lebed, called in May, 1998 on Russia's chief prosecutor Yuri Skuratov (whose resignation, accepted last month by Yeltsin, has just been refused by the Federal Council) to restore order in the region's aluminum plants.
