MOSCOW: Former Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov — an in depth ally of Russian president Boris Yeltsin earlier than turning towards him in 1993 — has died, state tv stated on Tuesday.
Khasbulatov, an ethnic Chechen, died at his dwelling outdoors Moscow aged 80, the tv report stated, citing kin.
Outstanding rights activist Alexander Cherkasov stated that Khasbulatov died Tuesday, however didn’t present a reason behind dying.
Khasbulatov’s physique will probably be taken to his native Chechen village of Tolstoi-Yurt, he stated on Fb.
Khasbulatov was an in depth ally of Yeltsin within the dying days of the Soviet Union.
Khasbulatov was appointed speaker of parliament after the Soviet Union’s fall in 1991 by then-president Yeltsin, and the 2 resisted the August 1991 coup collectively.
However Yeltsin and Khasbulatov rapidly grew to become political rivals — with the facility wrestle culminating within the 1993 October revolt when Yeltsin despatched tanks to storm the parliament constructing.
Khasbulatov was briefly imprisoned after the rise up. He was amnestied in 1994 however his political profession was over.
“Yeltsin primarily ruined my life,” mass-circulation newspaper Argumenty i Fakty quoted Khasbulatov as saying in 2014.
Khasbulatov, an ethnic Chechen, died at his dwelling outdoors Moscow aged 80, the tv report stated, citing kin.
Outstanding rights activist Alexander Cherkasov stated that Khasbulatov died Tuesday, however didn’t present a reason behind dying.
Khasbulatov’s physique will probably be taken to his native Chechen village of Tolstoi-Yurt, he stated on Fb.
Khasbulatov was an in depth ally of Yeltsin within the dying days of the Soviet Union.
Khasbulatov was appointed speaker of parliament after the Soviet Union’s fall in 1991 by then-president Yeltsin, and the 2 resisted the August 1991 coup collectively.
However Yeltsin and Khasbulatov rapidly grew to become political rivals — with the facility wrestle culminating within the 1993 October revolt when Yeltsin despatched tanks to storm the parliament constructing.
Khasbulatov was briefly imprisoned after the rise up. He was amnestied in 1994 however his political profession was over.
“Yeltsin primarily ruined my life,” mass-circulation newspaper Argumenty i Fakty quoted Khasbulatov as saying in 2014.
