Russian Police Arrest Last Rebel Leader
Police have ar rested the remaining ringleader sought in last October’s rebellion against Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, Interfax news agency said Sunday.
The agency said Alexander Barkashov, head of the banned nationalist and anti-Semitic Russian National Unity group, had been arrested late last week and transferred to a special Interior Ministry hospital, where he is recovering from a bullet wound.
He was the last ringleader sought after the conservative Parliament made a stand that ended when troops loyal to Yeltsin shelled the White House Parliament building.
An Interior Ministry official, who asked not to be identified, said the ministry will publish a formal statement about Barkashov today.
“He is now in the Interior Ministry hospital. He is not quite well, but his state of health is under control,” the official said.
Interfax, quoting sources from Barkashov’s movement, said he had been shot at one week earlier “from a passing car” and was receiving treatment at another hospital when he was seized.
Barkashov had been in hiding since October, when Yeltsin sent tanks and troops to crush a hard-line uprising by forces loyal to the conservative Parliament.
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