ALEXANDER LEBED, who has died aged 52, was once seen by many as a future Russian president. An immensely popular army officer, he came third in the presidential election of 1996, before throwing his ...

MOSCOW — Alexander I. Lebed, a rough-hewn, gravel-voiced general who once seemed bound for Russia’s highest office until he overreached and found himself instead in the political wilderness, died ...

WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- Alexander Lebed could never become president of Russia, yet if he had, he might have been great at the job, and made his nation a secure and respected part of the West.

Hartzel “Hank” Z. Lebed, who served as president of CIGNA Corp. in the mid-1980s, died Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz., of bone marrow cancer. He was 73. H. Edward Hanway, CIGNA’s current chairman and ...

The Russian soldier and politician, Alexander Lebed, has been laid to rest with full military honours in Moscow after his death in a helicopter crash in Siberia on Sunday. At the funeral President ...

General Alexander Lebed, who has died aged 52 in a helicopter crash, was a gruff soldier whose popularity and political ambitions raised fears of Bonapartism taking hold in the chaos of post- ...