Ivan Rybkin
| Ivan Petrovich Rybkin Ива́н Петро́вич Ры́бкин |
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| 1st Chairman of the State Duma | |
| In office 14 January 1994 – 17 January 1996 |
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| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Preceded by | Ruslan Khasbulatov as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet |
| Succeeded by | Gennadiy Seleznyov |
| 5th Secretary of the Security Council | |
| In office 19 October 1996 – 2 March 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Alexander Lebed |
| Succeeded by | Andrei Kokoshin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 January 1946 Semigorka, Voronezh Region, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | United Russia |
Ivan Petrovich Rybkin (born 5 January 1946) is a Russian politician; was Chairman of Russia's State Duma in 1994–96 and Secretary of the Security Council in 1996–98.
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[edit] Early life
He was born in village of Semigorka, Voronesh Oblast. In 1968, Rybkin graduated from Volgograd Agricultural Institute, and in 1991 from the Soviet Academy of Social Sciences. After a career on lower ranks of the Communist Party, Rybkin was elected as peoples' deputy to the congress of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1990. In 1993, Rybkin became a member of the Agrarian Party of Russia. That very year in December, he was elected deputy of the State Duma.
[edit] Political career
[edit] Speaker of Russian State Duma
In 1994, Rybkin was elected speaker of the State Duma. In January 1995, he became a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. In July of that year, Rybkin became a leader of the Regions of Russia Bloc. In March 1998, Rybkin was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Commonwealth of Independent States affairs.
[edit] Presidential candidate
In 2004, Rybkin was nominated by Berezovsky's Liberal Party for the Russian presidential elections. During the campaign, on 2 February 2004, in his article in the Kommersant and Novaya Gazeta newspapers he accused incumbent President Vladimir Putin of having bombed Moscow in 1999 just to make way for the Chechnya attack, but also to be an oligarch involved in shady business activities with Yury Kovalchuk, Mikhail Kovalchuk, Gennady Timchenko, KiNEx and the Russia Bank, which allegedly swallowed up a vast share of the nation's financial flows. He then accused Putin of having kidnapped him, after having given contradictory informations about what he claimed had happened. These allegations have been dismissed by various newspapers as “not very credible”, nor grounded on any kind of evidence.[1]
The Guardian said that some people characterized Rybkin's claim as “a publicity stunt” [2], while CNN stated that in Russia “the common explanation "he's gone missing" is a euphemism for a man on a prolonged drinking binge or a romantic escapade” [3].
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| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Ruslan Khasbulatov as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet |
Speaker of the Duma 14 January 1994 – 17 January 1996 |
Succeeded by Gennadiy Seleznyov |
| Preceded by Alexander Lebed |
Secretary of the Security Council of Russia 19 October 1996–2 March 1998 |
Succeeded by Andrei Kokoshin |
