The Former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Ruslan Khasbulatov passed away at the age of 80, on Tuesday.
The news was announced by Shamsail Saraliyev, a member of the State Duma from Chechnya.
Saraliyev said: “Ruslan Khasbulatov has passed away in his country house near Moscow.”The funeral will take place in Grozny on January 5.
Khasbulatov was born in Grozny on November 22, 1942.
In the late 1980s, he began to work with President Boris Yeltsin, and was elected to the Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian SFSR in 1990.
In 1991, he was elected as the chairman of the parliament in October 1991and continued holding his position until the fall of the Soviet Union.
He served as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from 1991 to 1993.
After that, he chaired the Department of World Economics at the Russian University of Economics.
He was awarded the Medal for Labor Valor in 1986, in addition, he was honored as the Scientist of the Russian Federation in 2008.
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