Alexander Rutskoy
[1][2] Born in Proskuriv, Ukraine (modern Khmelnytskyi), Rutskoy served with great distinction as an air force officer during the Soviet–Afghan War, for which he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.After a two-week standoff and popular unrest, Yeltsin ordered the military to storm the parliament building, arrested Rutskoy and formally dismissed him as vice president.On the third occasion, his Su-25 aircraft entered Pakistani airspace over Miranshah, and was shot down by a PAF F-16 Falcon flown by Squadron Leader Athar Bukhari from the No.[8] In October 1991 Rutskoy went to Kyiv in order to negotiate the price of Russian natural gas exports to Ukraine, and through Ukrainian territory to Europe.The Ukrainians naturally turned for help to the United States, which sought to aggregate Soviet nuclear weapons in the hands of Moscow and to occupy ex-Soviet scientists with the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction programme.The Budapest Memorandum provided security assurances to the three ex-Soviet countries Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan in exchange to their accession to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.[9] Following the initial period of peaceful collaboration with Yeltsin, from the end of 1992, Rutskoy began openly declaring his opposition to the President's economic and foreign policies and accusing some Russian government officials of corruption.[19] Soon after his release, Rutskoy founded a populist, nationalist party, Derzhava (Russian: Держава), which failed in the 1995 legislative election to the State Duma, gathering only about 2.5% of the votes and thus not passing the 5% threshold.It is noted that Rutskoy had the potential to become an opposition leader upon re-entering politics but he adopted a pragmatic and compliant approach in his dealings with the government in Moscow in general and Yeltsin in particular.[24] In the 2016 Russian legislative election, he again ran for the State Duma as part of the federal list of the party Patriots of Russia and the single-member constituency in Kursk Oblast.
Eastern Slavic naming customspatronymicfamily nameActing President of RussiadisputedBoris YeltsinVice President of RussiaGovernor of Kursk OblastVladimir PutinVasily ShuteyevAlexander MikhailovProskurivUkrainian SSRSoviet UnionUkraineIndependentPatriots of RussiaDerzhavaCP RSFSRRussiaSoviet Air ForceRussian Air ForceMajor generalRussianacting president1993 Russian constitutional crisisKhmelnytskyiSoviet–Afghan WarHero of the Soviet Union1991 Russian presidential electionRussian parliamentparliament buildingState DumaKursk OblastBarnaulGagarin Air Force AcademyMoscowcolonelsent to AfghanistanAfghanistan40th ArmyMiranshahF-16 FalconSquadron LeaderNo. 14 SquadronIslamabadPakistanU.S. Central Intelligence AgencyGeneva AccordsSoviet withdrawal from Afghanistan1991 electionVice President President of RSFSR/RussiaTransnistriaCrimeaMoldovaBlack Sea fleetSevastopolCrimean PeninsulaNunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat ReductionBudapest MemorandumBelarusKazakhstannuclear non-proliferation treatyRussian constitutional crisis of 1993Sergei FilatovSupreme Soviet of RussiaSoviet Constitution of 1978President of Russian FederationRussian White HouseimprisonedLefortovo prisonAugust 19911995 legislative election1996 electionRussian Supreme CourtSupreme Court of Russia2003 Russian legislative electionCentral Election Commission2014 Russian electionsnomination process2016 Russian legislative electionWayback MachinePrime Minister of Russia1993 Russian coup d'étatPresidents of the Russian FederationDmitry MedvedevActing Presidents1993, disputedViktor ChernomyrdinCandidatescampaignNikolai RyzhkovBoris GromovCommunist PartyVladimir ZhirinovskyLiberal Democratic PartyAman TuleyevAlbert MakashovVadim BakatinRamazan Abdulatipov