Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Ruslan Khasbulatov (1947 - ) politician who worked with Boris Yeltsin from 1987 and became speaker of the Russian parliament after the attempted coup in 1991. Born in 1947 in Chechnya. (Then part of the Soviet Union.) In 1993 he led the parliament in the power struggle against president Boris Yeltsin. We was arrested along with the other leaders of the congressional insurrection, but pardoned in 1994. Since then he has resumed his earlier career as a teacher of economics as founder and head of the Department of International Economy at the Russian Economic Academy. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.