XXXX SAST REPORT XXXX MON APRIL 29, 2002 14:42 UTC XXXX MORT DU GÉNÉRAL ALEXANDRE LEBED   Le général Alexandre Lebed, «exilé» à Krasnoïarsk, s'est tué en hélicoptère.   MOSCOW -- Governor of Krasnoyarsk territory of Siberia Alexander Lebed, 52, has died of injuries suffered as a result of a helicopter crash near the town of Abakan, about 3.400 km east of Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin set up an investigation commission, chaired by Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu. Russia's leader described Alexander Lebed as "one of the most striking and distinctive politicians of Russia." Alexander Lebed played an important role during the August 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup leaders ordered him to send in his paratroopers to surround the headquarters of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. He refused, a move that to a large degree led to the coup's collapse. Alexei Arbatov, deputy head of parliamentary defence committee, said the former paratroop general had made many enemies in Krasnoyarsk, Russia's second-biggest region, and said the crash might have been orchestrated by one of them. She pointed out that the weather was bad, but it appeared that the Mi-8 helicopter had simply flown into the power lines.