Alexandre Lebed
Alexandre Lebed (April 20th 1950 - April 28th 2002), is a Russian general, former candidate with the presidential election in Russia, which in particular exerted the political offices of governor of the area of Krasnoïarsk and secretary of the Safety advice of the Federation of Russia.
Career in the army
Soldier of elite in the Soviet army intervening in the years 1980 in Afghanistan, Azerbaïdjan and Georgia, it climbed the levels of the military hierarchy until becoming general. In 1992, its army positioned in Transnistrie prevented the reincorporation of this free zone in Moldavie.
Political course
It acquired a political notoriety, during the Putsch of Moscow of 1991, while refusing to follow the putschists who tried to reverse the Soviet former president Mikhaïl Gorbatchev. Its political contribution continued by openly criticizing the policy of the Russian government in Chetchnia.Denouncing regularly the Maffia, the Corruption of the politicians of its country as well as the disappearance of a hundred nuclear bags, it is presented to presidential June 1996. It joins with Boris Eltsine after the first turn, which will name it at the safety advice, where it contributed at the end of the First war of Chetchnia by negotiations with Aslan Maskhadov.
Eclipse by the emergence of Vladimir Poutine, it chooses to start again itself while becoming governor with the support of the Oligarque Boris Berezovski. But during its mandature with Krasnoïarsk, in spite of important conflicts with Rusal or Norilsk Nickel, he will not manage to maintain its will have media.
Alexandre Lebed died on April 28th, 2002 at 52 years in an accident of Hélicoptère in Siberia.
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