What Ruslan Khasbulatov is known for – Picture of the Day – Kommersant

On January 3, Ruslan Khasbulatov, the last chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, died in the Moscow region. What he is known for – in the help “Kommersant”.

Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov was born on November 22, 1942 in Grozny. At the age of two, he was deported to the Kazakh SSR with his family. In 1966 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

From 1965 to 1967 – Secretary of the Komsomol Committee of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1970-1972 he worked as an instructor and responsible organizer of the department of propaganda and agitation of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.

From 1972 to 1979, he was engaged in methodological work, including coordinating research at the Institute of Scientific Information in the Social Sciences and leading the development of normative materials for one of the departments of the Research Institute for Higher Education Problems.

Since 1979, he has been a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Economy at the Moscow Institute of National Economy (now the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics). From 1984 to 1990, he headed the Department of Economics of Foreign Countries there. In 1989, he was nominated by the staff of the Moscow Institute of National Economy as a candidate for People’s Deputies of the USSR.

In 1990 he was elected a people’s deputy of the RSFSR. From June 1990 to October 1991 – First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin.

Since July 10, 1991 – Acting Chairman and then Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. In this status, in August 1991, he condemned the actions of the State Emergency Committee, calling them “a reactionary anti-constitutional coup.” In December 1991, he spoke in favor of the ratification by the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of the Belovezhskaya Accords, the withdrawal from the union treaty and the cessation of the existence of the USSR.

In December 1992, at the VII Congress of People’s Deputies of the RSFSR, he criticized the president and government of Russia. In September 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin dissolved the Congress of People’s Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation. In response, the Supreme Council at an emergency meeting decided to terminate the powers of Boris Yeltsin and entrusted the leadership of the country to Vice President Alexander Rutskoi.

On October 3, 1993, clashes began between supporters of President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Council under the leadership of Ruslan Khasbulatov, which led to skirmishes in the center of Moscow and the shooting of the White House.

On October 4, 1993, after the White House was stormed, Ruslan Khasbulatov was arrested on charges of organizing mass riots. From 4 October 1993 to 25 February 1994 Mr Khasbulatov was imprisoned in the Lefortovo remand prison in Moscow. He was released under an amnesty declared by the State Duma.

In August-September 1994, he unsuccessfully tried to organize negotiations between the Russian authorities and one of the leaders of the Chechen separatists, Dzhokhar Dudayev. These negotiations went down in history as “Professor Khasbulatov’s peacekeeping mission.” He considered the possibility of expanding the autonomy of Chechnya within Russia.

In 2003, he opposed the extradition from Great Britain to Russia of one of the leaders of the separatists, Akhmed Zakayev. In August 2003, he planned to run for the presidency of Chechnya, but in the end he did not submit documents to the Central Election Commission. In 2021, he supported the re-election for a new term of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.

After completing his political career, he taught at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, including the head of the Department of World Economy.

Doctor of Economic Sciences (dissertation topic – “Modern state-monopoly capitalism in Canada”). Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the medal “For Labor Valour”.