Lebed, AleksandrLeb‧ed, Al‧ek‧san‧dr /ˈlebed, ˌælɪɡˈzɑːndə $ -ˈzændər/(1951–2002) a Russian army officer and politician who was in the news in the mid-1990s for his success in establishing peace between Russia and Chechnya, and for his disagreements with Boris yeltsin about the way Russia should be governed