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DIED. ALEXANDER LEBED, 52, blunt, charismatic Soviet general instrumental in defending the Russian parliament against a 1991 coup by communist hard-liners; in a helicopter crash in Siberia. When President Gorbachev was taken hostage by hard-liners seeking to overturn his reforms, Lebed, a hero of the Soviet war in...
DIED. ALEXANDER IVANOVICH LEBED, 52, governor of Russia's Krasnoyarski region, ex-army general and a 1996 Russian presidential contender, in a helicopter crash; in Siberia. An Afghan war veteran, Lebed protected Boris Yeltsin during the hard-liners' coup in 1991, ended bloodshed in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region in...
...“Want a brewski?” Boris G. Sumilovitch ’03 was asked several years ago. “I certainly do-ski!” he responded wittily. Sumilovitch has been telling the story of “that awesome time I said ?...
RUSSIA President Accused Former media mogul Boris Berezovsky attempted to link his one-time ally President Vladimir Putin to the bombing of Russian apartment blocks that killed over 200 people in September 1999. Berezovsky told a London news conference that Putin knew the country's special services were involved in...
Engaging in breathtaking displays of selective memory, Boris Berezovsky and the Putin administration he helped bring to power spent much of last week exchanging allegations of horrible crimes. Berezovsky, the exiled billionaire who was one of the most influential figures in Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin, accused Vladimir Putin of complicity...