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COUNTRY:
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PERSON: Ruslan Khasbulatov
HEADLINE: Biographies
Ruslan Khasbulatov was the chairperson of the Russian legislature and
President Boris Yeltsin's foe in a protracted struggle for control of the
Russian state. Imprisoned for his role in the October 1993 congressional
uprising, he was granted amnesty by hard-line deputies in February 1994.
Khasbulatov was
born in Russia in 1947. A radical politician who first came to prominence in
1987, Khasbulatov served as Yeltsin's first deputy when Yeltsin was chairperson
of the Russian Federation's Supreme Soviet. When hard-line forces tried to
overthrow the regime of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
in August 1991, Khasbulatov urged a general strike.
Khasbulatov became chairperson of the Russian legislature in September 1991
and soon after began criticizing Yeltsin's policies and methods. Khasbulatov
opposed the pace and direction of the economic reforms undertaken by Yeltsin
and spent most of 1993
trying to obstruct Yeltsin and dilute his powers. A key leader in that year's
congressional insurrection, Khasbulatov exited politics to pursue a former
career as an economics teacher since his amnesty in early 1994. A native
Chechen, Khasbulatov returned to his restless homeland Chechnya the
secessionist Caucus republic in southern Russia in the summer of 1994 to join
the growing military opposition to Chechen President Dzhokar Dudayev. He was
reported to have left Chechnya amid intense fighting in December 1994.
[Source: The Biographical Dictionary of the Former Soviet Union]
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