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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.
Jan 1, 1996 · 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.
Feb 27, 1995 · General Alexander Lebed was once an amateur boxer, and one might pity the opponents who succeeded in hitting him, for his head, with its ridgelike brow and thick, snubbed nose, looks literally ...
Apr 29, 2002 · Alexander I. Lebed, a rough-hewn, gravel-voiced general who once seemed bound for Russia’s highest office until he overreached and found himself instead in the political wilderness, died Sunday...
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 · Alexander Lebed was a no-nonsense Russian army general whose plain-speaking style made him a formidable politician. He was born in the southern city of Novocherkassk on April 20, 1950.
Jun 22, 2022 · 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.
May 2, 2002 · As it turned out, General Alexander Lebed was looking thoroughly out of place in President Vladimir Putin's Russia when he died this week in a helicopter crash in his Siberian fief of...
Sep 1, 1998 · There are three reasons to read this autobiography: first, the smart money says that if elections were held today, Lebed would be Russia's next president. He comes across as a rather simple military man, distinctly untutored on the larger political issues he now claims to have mastered.
Apr 28, 2022 · Twenty years ago, Russia and the world were stunned to learn of the death of retired Lieutenant General Alexander Lebed. A highly decorated Army paratrooper and then governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (the second-largest state in Russia), Lebed, 52, was increasingly critical of...
