Background
Khasbulatov was born in Tolstoy-yurt, a village near Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on November 22, 1942.
economist politician scientist
Khasbulatov was born in Tolstoy-yurt, a village near Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on November 22, 1942.
After studying in Almaty, Khasbulatov moved to Moscow in 1962, where he studied law at the prestigious Moscow State University.
After graduating in 1966, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He continued his studies, focusing on the political, social and economic development of capitalist countries, and received several higher degrees between 1970 and 1980. During the 1970s and 1980s, he published a number of books on international economics and trade.
In the late 1980s, Khasbulatov began to work closely with rising maverick Communist Boris Yeltsin.
He was elected to the Congress of People"s Deputies of the Russian SFSR in 1990. He followed Yeltsin in the successful resistance to the putsch attempt in 1991.
He quit the Communist Party in August 1991, and on 29 October 1991 he was elected speaker of the Supreme Soviet of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
After the collapse of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Khasbulatov consolidated his control over the Russian parliament and became the second most powerful man in Russia after Yeltsin himself. Among other factors, the escalating clash of egos between Khasbulatov and Yeltsin led to the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, in which Khasbulatov (along with Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoy) led the Supreme Soviet of Russia in its power struggle with the president, which ended with Yeltsin"s violent assault on and subsequent dissolution of the parliament in October 1993.
Khasbulatov was arrested along with the other leaders of the parliament.
In 1994, the newly elected Duma pardoned him along with other key leaders of the anti-Yeltsin resistance. He continues to comment on political developments in Russia.
Corresponding member Russian Academy of Sciences.
