(AP) Alexander Lebed, the gruff former general who helped defeat the 1991 hard-line Soviet coup and stave off a Communist challenge to Russian President Boris Yeltsin five years later, was killed ...

Two days after President Boris Yeltsin scored a resounding re-election victory, his top aides are involved in a bruising and very public struggle for power. Tension between the new security chief, ...

"I don't get any pleasure out of this," said Alexander Lebed. The bass voice grumbled quietly, deep in his chest. "It's necessary work, which today I have to do. It's unpleasant, it's dirty, but I've ...