<p>Former Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov -- a close ally of Russian president Boris Yeltsin before turning against him in 1993 -- has died, state television said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov, an ethnic Chechen, died at his home outside Moscow aged 80, the television report said, citing relatives.</p>.<p>Prominent rights activist Alexander Cherkasov said that Khasbulatov died Tuesday, but did not provide a cause of death.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov's body will be taken to his native Chechen village of Tolstoi-Yurt, he said on Facebook.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov was a close ally of Yeltsin in the dying days of the Soviet Union.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov was appointed speaker of parliament after the Soviet Union's fall in 1991 by then-president Yeltsin, and the two resisted the August 1991 coup together.</p>.<p>But Yeltsin and Khasbulatov quickly became political rivals -- with the power struggle culminating in the 1993 October revolt when Yeltsin sent tanks to storm the parliament building.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov was briefly imprisoned after the rebellion. He was amnestied in 1994 but his political career was over.</p>.<p>"Yeltsin essentially ruined my life," mass-circulation newspaper <em>Argumenty i Fakty</em> quoted Khasbulatov as saying in 2014.</p>
<p>Former Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov -- a close ally of Russian president Boris Yeltsin before turning against him in 1993 -- has died, state television said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov, an ethnic Chechen, died at his home outside Moscow aged 80, the television report said, citing relatives.</p>.<p>Prominent rights activist Alexander Cherkasov said that Khasbulatov died Tuesday, but did not provide a cause of death.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov's body will be taken to his native Chechen village of Tolstoi-Yurt, he said on Facebook.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov was a close ally of Yeltsin in the dying days of the Soviet Union.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov was appointed speaker of parliament after the Soviet Union's fall in 1991 by then-president Yeltsin, and the two resisted the August 1991 coup together.</p>.<p>But Yeltsin and Khasbulatov quickly became political rivals -- with the power struggle culminating in the 1993 October revolt when Yeltsin sent tanks to storm the parliament building.</p>.<p>Khasbulatov was briefly imprisoned after the rebellion. He was amnestied in 1994 but his political career was over.</p>.<p>"Yeltsin essentially ruined my life," mass-circulation newspaper <em>Argumenty i Fakty</em> quoted Khasbulatov as saying in 2014.</p>