Ruslan Khasbulatov, key 1993 Russian crisis figure, dead at 80 ...Middle East

OTTAWA: Former Russian parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov, a key figure in a 1993 power struggle that ended when tanks shelled the legislature, has died at the age of 80, Russian news agencies said yesterday.Khasbulatov, an academic from the southern republic of Chechnya, was elected chairman of the parliament in October 1991 and kept the job after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of the year.He was initially an ally of then-president Boris Yeltsin but the two men fell out as far-reaching government economic reforms caused living standards to plummet.In late September 1993, Yeltsin declared the dissolution of the parliament, which responded by announcing the measure was null and

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