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	Aleksandr Lebed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Lebed had come to Russian national attention after the Soviet Coup of 1991, in which a conspiracy of old-guard Communist hard-liners sought to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev's government and reverse his reforms.
		The presence of his troops is generally accounted responsible for the large-scale conflict in the region, though Lebed publicly expressed his disgust with the corruption and cronyism of Igor Smirnov, the president of the Moldova breakaway region Transnistria.
		Lebed ran as a candidate in the 1996 Russian presidential election and finished third with 14.5% of vote in the first round of voting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Lebed (637 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Alexander Lebed
		ALEXANDER LEBED, who has died aged 52, was once seen by many as a future Russian president.
		Lebed was one of the generation of Soviet airborne forces officers who fought in, and were marked by, the Soviet-Afghan war.
		Alexander Ivanovich Lebed was born on April 20 1950 at Novocherkassk, near Rostov, in southern Russia.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/29/db2901.xml (1249 words)

	IN MEMORIAM: GEN. ALEXANDER LEBED, 1950-2002 : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lebed's own father was a former political prisoner, condemned by Joseph Stalin to the Gulag but later reprieved to serve in a military punishment battalion during the Second World War.
		Lebed's costly and morally ambiguous acceptance of a high position could have been followed by a patient exercise in empire-building, and it is possible that his role of heir-apparent could have been accepted by the oligarchs had he not made them feel threatened.
		Lebed seemed able to rebuild it when he ran for, and won, the governorship of the huge Siberian province of Krasnoyarsk in 1998 (allegedly with some help from one of the oligarchs), but his victory in retrospect looks like an admission that his goals had shrunk.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=125979 (1547 words)

	IN MEMORIAM: GEN. ALEXANDER LEBED by Srdja Trifkovic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lebed's views on Russia's predicament, mostly grim but stated with simplicity and conviction, were refreshingly clear in a city brimming with "experts" who sought to rationalize their country's economic, political and military collapse.
		Lebed was born in the southern city of Novocherkassk in the Cossack country in 1950.
		As this prescient quote indicates Lebed was not "clever" but he did have the Russian peasant's natural wisdom, and the enlightened nationalist's capacity to limit his demands for his own people by the need to grant the legitimate demands of others.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /News/Trifkovic/NewsST050302.htm (1488 words)

	Guardian \| General Alexander Lebed
		General Alexander Lebed, who has died aged 52 in a helicopter crash, was a gruff soldier whose popularity and political ambitions raised fears of Bonapartism taking hold in the chaos of post- communist Russia in the mid-1990s.
		Lebed mitigated Moscow's humiliation, and negotiated a settlement that added a dash of honour to the Russian withdrawal, an achievement which subsequently gained him no plaudits among the KGB veterans and military men now running Russia.
		Lebed worked in factories and warehouses in the Novocherkassk area after leaving school, while dreaming of becoming an air force pilot.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4403384-103610,00.html (750 words)

	General Lebed Killed in Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lebed, 52, the governor of the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, was taken to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries.
		Lebed was forced to retire from the military in 1995 after he began criticizing Yeltsin's government for corruption, rot within the military and tarnishing Russian nationalism in an unpopular war against separatists in the republic of Chechnya.
		Lebed joined the army as a paratrooper in 1969, rose quickly through the ranks, and was a highly decorated battalion commander in the Afghan war.
	www.internetpirate.com /lebed.htm (544 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Alexander Lebed: All action hero
		Alexander Lebed was a no-nonsense Russian army general whose plain-speaking style made him a formidable politician.
		Lebed was brought into the administration - as Secretary of the Security Council and Security Adviser - in return for delivering his votes to Yeltsin in the second round.
		Lebed was killed in a helicopter crash near Abakan on Sunday 28 April while on his way to open a new skiing route.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/1955980.stm (402 words)

	USATODAY.com - Alexander Lebed, Russian military hero, dies at 52 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		MOSCOW (AP) — Alexander Lebed, the tough-talking former general who emerged as a strong challenger to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and was credited with ending Moscow's 1994-96 war in Chechnya, was killed Sunday in a helicopter crash.
		Lebed was born in the blue-collar, southern city of Novocherkassk on April 20, 1950.
		In 1992, Lebed was sent to command Russian troops in Moldova's breakaway region of Trans-Dniester, the scene of ethnic conflict between the Moldovan government and mainly Slav separatists.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/04/28/lebed.htm (636 words)

	Alexander Korzhakov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Being the President's bodyguard, Korzhakov (second from left) stands with Boris Yeltsin (on the left) on a tank to defy the August coup on August 18, 1991.
		Alexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov (Russian: Александр Васильевич Коржаков) (born January 31, 1950 in Moscow), was a KGB general who served as Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard, confidant, and adviser for 11 years.
		Alexander Korzhakov was born in Moscow to a worker family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Korzhakov (1769 words)

	CNN.com - Lebed: Action man who nearly led Russia - April 28, 2002
		Lebed's fierce nationalism and military, frontier mentality approach showed his origins as a Cossack from the southern border city of Novocherkassk.
		As secretary of the council, Lebed negotiated with the victorious rebels of Chechnya, being one of few Russian politicians pragmatic -- or shrewd -- enough to realise that fighting in the northern Caucasus must be brought to an end.
		Lebed withdrew to stand in 1998 for governor in the Siberian area of Krasnoyarsk, Russia's second-biggest region, home to the Norilsk Nickel metals producer and a major aluminium smelter.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/28/russia.lebed.profile (900 words)

	Online NewsHour: Alexander Lebed -- November 22 , 1996
		Lebed claims Yeltsin's chief of staff Anatoly Chubais is actually running Russia, and that the nation is definately not a democracy.
		Lebed denied he was planning a coup, and apparently, many Russians believed him.
		GENERAL ALEXANDER LEBED: (speaking through interpreter) I believe that NATO and the very name, the very abbreviation, NATO, is also a fragment of the Cold War.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/november96/lebed_11-22.html (2557 words)

	BookRags: Alexander Ivanovich Lebed Biography
		Lebed was called upon to organize a defense of the Supreme Soviet building in Moscow, and the coup failed in a matter of days.
		Lebed's military career took one more turn, in the summer of 1992, when he was called in to quell an ethnic conflict in the Dniester Moldovan Republic.
		Lebed angered the Yeltsin government in 1997 by claiming, on U.S. television, that 84 tactical nuclear warheads had gone missing from the Russian stockpile.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alexander-ivanovich-lebed (1527 words)

	Martin Sieff on Gen. Alexander Lebed on National Review Online
		Lebed was only 52 when his helicopter crashed into a power cable in a remote part of the huge, resource-rich Russian province, or oblast, of Krasnoyarsk that he had run — his critics claimed, into the ground — for the past four years.
		Lebed died a political has-been; he never had any serious chance of taking power in Moscow from the moment he struck his ill-fated 1996 deal with Yeltsin.
		Lebed was full of life to the moment he died but he also died a political has-been.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-sieff043002.asp (1775 words)

	CNN - Lebed wins Siberian gubernatorial race - May 17, 1998
		KRASNOYARSK, Russia (CNN) -- Alexander Lebed was elected governor of a huge Siberian territory Sunday, catapulting himself into the front ranks of prospective Russian presidential candidates for the 2000 election.
		Lebed has made no secret of his presidential ambitions, and he has said he would consider running in 2000 if he succeeds in improving the economy in Krasnoyarsk.
		Lebed, 48, has been vague about what he would do as governor, except to say he will demand a larger cut of tax revenues for the regional budget and send less money to Moscow.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9805/17/lebed/index.html (1255 words)

	CNN.com - Russian politician killed in crash - April 29, 2002
		In 1995 after a dispute with the defence minister Lebed was forced to retire from the military.
		In 1998 Lebed was elected governor of Krasnoyarsk, an area four times the size of France, where he quickly ruffled feathers, falling foul of local business barons who helped him become governor but whom he later called "mafia." Lebed called in police investigators from Moscow to help stamp his authority.
		Alexei Arbatov, deputy head of parliamentary defence committee, said Lebed's passing was likely to upset a shaky political balance in the region which hinged to a vast degree on the charismatic governor's popularity.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/28/russia.lebed/index.html (563 words)

	Yeltsin fires security chief after reports of mutiny plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Yeltsin said Lebed was running for president already, and he complained that the security chief had made decisions without consulting him or the rest of the government.
		On Tuesday, Lebed told parliament that Kulikov was among those responsible for prolonging the bloody war, and the interior minister retaliated Wednesday by accusing Lebed of the mutiny plot.
		Lebed, popular with ordinary Russians, has been seeking control over the so-called "power ministries." Those include Kulikov's Interior Ministry, which has tens of thousands of troops at its disposal and is in charge of police and some elite paramilitary forces.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/10/17/lebed.html (788 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		Lebed stated that these devices were made to look like suitcases, and could be detonated by one person within half an hour.
		Lebed later testified before the Congressional Military Research and Development Subcommittee at a hearing on 1 October 1997 where he stated that the bombs were made to look like suitcases and could be detonated by one person with less than 30 minutes preparation.
		Lebed's claim that such devices had been manufactured were corroborated on 3 October by testimony from Russian scientist Alexei Yablokov, former environmental advisor to President Yeltsin while serving on the Russian National Security Council (see www.house.gov/curtweldon/pr_100397.htm).
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/NBC/020518.Lebed.suitcase.nuke.html (1702 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Russia's Alexander Lebed laid to rest
		General Lebed's body was laid to rest at the Novodevichy cemetery next to the grave of Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the former Soviet President.
		Lebed, who came third in the Russian presidential election of 1996, was once considered a possible successor to President Boris Yeltsin.
		Lebed, who trained and served in Afghanistan from 1981-82, also won plaudits in 1991 during the coup attempt against then President Gorbachev, when he refused to deploy his troops on the coup leaders' side.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1958939.stm (494 words)

	CNN.com - Russia probes Lebed death crash - April 29, 2002
		One of Russia's most well-known public figures and the governor of the Krasnoyarsk region, Lebed died along with seven others when the Mi-8 helicopter they were travelling in crashed into a snowy Siberian hillside at the weekend.
		The 52-year-old former army general, who helped defeat the 1991 hard-line Soviet coup against then president Mikhail Gorbachev and came in third in Russia's 1996 presidential elections, was one of Russia's most prominent politicians in the 1990s, gaining respect for his strong individual stance on thorny issues.
		After his 1996 presidential bid Lebed served as the head of then-President Boris Yeltsin's security council and was credited with brokering an end to Moscow's 1994-96 war in Chechnya.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/29/lebed.investigation (440 words)

	News
		Lebed held his second day of talks as it became clear Russian generals had not carried out their threat to bombard the Chechen capital, held by rebels for more than two weeks.
		Lebed returned to the same southern Chechen village where he had talks the previous night and promised to try to end the conflict and agree the status of demilitarised city for Grozny.
		Alexander Lebed, shuttling between rebel and military bases late into the night, dismissed as a "bad joke" the ultimatum issued by Yeltsin's army for civilians to evacuate Grozny by Thursday morning or face a devastating aerial attack.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/news-old/8-96/ew8-22-96.html (2530 words)

	October 11, 1996 NATO JOURNEYS: LEBED IN BRUSSELS, ERBAKAN IN LIBYA
		Lebed urged the Atlantic Alliance not to hurry with its plan to take in new members, but he also made clear that Moscow was moving away from its previous stance of implacable opposition to the idea....
		Lebed continues to be so irritated by NATO's enlargement (plans) that he reiterated Russia's threat not to ratify several disarmament accords." "Grumbling Bear Is Seeking A Political Role" Independent Catholic Het Nieuwsblad (10/8) held: "In his search for genuine power, Lebed has been claiming economic and fiscal mandates--but these are invariably refused him.
		Lebed is finally taken seriously both at home and abroad and that is why, the minute he left his country, a most coordinated attack was launched against him.
	fas.org /man/nato/news/1996/wwwh1011.html (4040 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - Lebed Killed in Sunday Crash
		Alexander Lebed, pictured in July 1996, died after his helicopter apparently got caught in power lines and crashed on Sunday.
		Lebed, a 52-year-old former army general who helped defeat the 1991 hard-line Soviet coup and came in third in the 1996 presidential elections, was one of the country's most prominent politicians in the 1990s.
		Lebed was widely admired by Russians for his patriotism and for his straightforward remarks.
	www.sptimes.ru /story/7088 (797 words)

	Alexander Lebed
		Lebed has had strong ties to the extreme Communists in the past, joining the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR in September 1990 at the nomination of the hard-line Communist Initiative Movement, and recently sought an alliance with Zyuganov's "reformed" party, to no avail.
		Lebed and Svyatoslav Fedorov announced creation of the so-called "third force" alliance and made a couple of joint statements with Yavlinsky (on Chechnya and on the economic integration of the former Soviet republics).
		Alexander Lebed accused President Yeltsin of "betraying" the soldiers in Chechnya, in an article he published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta on April 3.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /hyplan/dmiguse/Russian/albio.html (2400 words)

	the eXile - Alexander Lebed: The eXile Interview
		A common complaint among people the eXile staff talked to in Krasnoyarsk is that Lebed's background as an autocratic military leader has made it impossible for him to grasp the subtleties of managing, as opposed to commanding, a political staff.
		Lebed may or may not be be as difficult a boss as the rumors contend, but his reputation for being a good interview is clearly well-deserved.
		Lebed's dinner table was a spread of sproty, tongue sandwiches, and Monstirska Izba Moldovan wine.
	www.exile.ru /shite/lebed65.html (4014 words)

	Lebed switches sides in search for political goal
		GEN Alexander Lebed, the gruff paratrooper who wants to be president of Russia, confirmed his move towards the hard-line camp yesterday by offering an electoral alliance with one of the most feared men in the land, Alexander Korzhakov, the disgraced presidential bodyguard.
		Gen Lebed marked his first 100 days in the Kremlin as President Yeltsin's national security adviser by painting a picture of himself as an impatient outsider, deprived of contact with the president and sabotaged by bureaucrats.
		Gen Lebed has given many interviews, all giving the impression that he has begun his campaign to succeed Mr Yeltsin, despite the fact that doctors are predicting that he will make a comeback.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/09/27/wleb27.html (627 words)

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