Ruslan Aushev
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Ruslan Sultanovich Aushev (Russian: Руслан Султанович Аушев; born October 29, 1954, village Volodarskoye, Kazakhstan) was the president of Ingushetia from March 1993 through December 2001. Holder of the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union from May 07, 1982.
After three years at the Frunze Military Academy, Aushev returned to Afghanistan in charge of a combat regiment where he was wounded on October 16, 1986. Later he ascended to the Soviet parliament where he remained for two years while serving on the Military Affairs Committee. In November of 1992 Aushev was appointed to lead the provisional administration in Ingushetia, a position he resigned two months later to run in the Ingushetian presidential elections. Being the sole candidate, he won the presidency on February 28, 1993 with 99,99% of the vote, and was re-elected 2 years later.
Then Aushev was elected to the Federation Council in December of 1993, a position he resigned in April of 2003. Aushev served as a negotiator on the second day of the Beslan school hostage crisis, convincing the hostage-takers to release 26 nursing women and their infants.
[edit] External links
- (Russian) The first president of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev's website.
- (Russian)Biography
- Ruslan Aushev: Russia's Champion At Getting Out The Vote by By Laura Belin, Radio Free Europe.
- Computer translation of the Aushev's bio at grankin.ru.
