Last chairman of Russia's Supreme Soviet dies at 80
Ruslan Khasbulatov, the last chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), has died at the age of 80, Shamsail Saraliyev, a member of the State Duma from Chechnya, told TASS on Tuesday.
"Ruslan Khasbulatov has passed away in his country house near Moscow," he said.
Khasbulatov’s funeral will take place in Grozny on January 5, a relative of his said.
Ruslan Khasbulatov was born in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now Russia’s Chechen Republic) on November 22, 1942. He served as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from 1991 to 1993. In recent years, he chaired the Department of World Economics at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Since 2009, he headed a scientific laboratory at the university. He was awarded the Medal for Labor Valor (1986), and he was also an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2008).