Alexander Lebed
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Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the Airborne Forces before running for president in the 1996 Russian
Portrait by Mikhail Evstafiev, 1996
Lebed with President Vladimir Putin, 2002
Lebed on a 2007 stamp of Transnistria
Lebed on a 2017 stamp of Transnistria
Gennady Zyuganov
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Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov is a Russian politician who has been the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1993 and a member of the State Duma since 1994. He is als
Alexander Lebed
…for president in the 1996 Russian presidential election. He did not win, but placed third behind incumbent Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, with roughly 14% of the vote nation-wide. Lebed later served as the Secretary of the Security Council in the Yeltsin administration, and eventually…
Zyuganov in 2025
Vladimir Putin and Zyuganov
Dmitry Medvedev and Zyuganov
Communist protesters with a sign portraying an "order of dismissal" for Vladimir Putin for "betrayal of the national interests", Moscow, 1 May 2012.