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Assessing Russia's Democratic Presidential Election - Harvard ...  The Russian presidential election that occurred this summer was the single most ... people voted in a democratic election to select the leader of their country. ... in the Russian election; why Yeltsin won; to what extent the election was free and fair; ... On June 16, he won 35% of the votes casts; on July 3, he managed 54%.
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List of presidents of Russia - Wikipedia  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Official standard of the President of the Russian Federation. Kremlin Senate - the official residence of the President of Russia. This is a list of Presidents of the Russian Federation formed in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet ... On June 12, 1991 he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative...
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Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia  He was reelected President in 2004 with 72% of the vote. During Putin's first presidency, the Russian economy grew for eight straight years, and GDP measured...
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Boris Yeltsin | president of Russia | Britannica.com  In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country's history, ... His victory in the first direct, popular elections for the presidency of the Russian republic ... growth dimmed Yeltsin's prospects for reelection to the Russian presidency. ... a communist challenger in the second round of elections held in July 1996.
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the ... He was reelected in the 1996 election, where critics widely claimed ..... On 12 July 1990, Yeltsin resigned from the CPSU in a dramatic speech before .... in the early-1996 presidential elections, the Russian president prepared for a...
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Boris N. Yeltsin, Who Buried the U.S.S.R., Dies at 76  Apr 25, 2007 ... Russian leader Boris Yelstin emerges from a balloting booth after casting ... had given the country democracy as the first elected president of Russia. ... But where Mr. Gorbachev sought to perpetuate the Communist Party, Mr. .... He stunned his fellow delegates when he resigned from the Communist Party...
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev - Government Official, President ...  Jan 23, 2016 ... Mikhail Gorbachev was the first president of the Soviet Union, serving from 1990 to 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his leadership role in ending the Cold War and promoting peaceful international relations. ... Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, in ...
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PATH TO POWER: A political profile.; Putin Steering to Reform, But ...  Feb 20, 2000 ... But Westerners seeking a clue to Mr. Putin's style of leadership, he said, might look ... Gorbachev -- but two: a law degree from Leningrad State University and a doctorate .... In 1974, Mr. Putin was Leningrad's judo champion. ... education and a unique chance to sample the forbidden world -- if only to fight it.
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, ... On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. ...... Yeltsin suffered from heart disease during his first term as President of the Russian Federation, probably continuing for the rest...
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev - Government Official, President ...  Jan 23, 2016 ... He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his leadership role in ending ... Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, in Privolnoye, Russia. ... He became the first president of the Soviet Union in 1990, and won the Nobel ... died, Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party.
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Boris Yeltsin's Life and Career | Timeline - Infoplease  1931, 1956, 1976, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2007 ... July. The new general secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev, brings Yeltsin to Moscow as secretary of the Central Committee for Construction.
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BORIS YELTSIN: 1931-2007 / He led Russia from communism ...  Apr 24, 2007 ... Yeltsin was the first leader in Russian history -- medieval, imperial or Soviet ... atop a tank outside the Russian republic's parliament, galvanizing popular ... Image 5 of 10 .... in October by the first of what would be two serious heart attacks. ... he rose to become his nation's first popularly elected president.
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The Putin Murders | La Russophobe  A Brief History of Putintime March 1997 45-year-old former KGB agent ... in polls, Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia in a massive landslide (he wins ... FSB to explain to the Russian Parliament what poison gas was applied during the ... and work of secret services from the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan,...
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Boris Yeltsin - New World Encyclopedia  Jul 30, 2013 ... On June 12, 1991 he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federated ... the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president in Russian history. ... 1 Synopsis of his term of office; 2 Early Life; 3 CPSU Member; 4 President of the ..... At the time Yeltsin was recuperating from a series of heart attacks.
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Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician who is the current President of the Russian Federation,...
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Nursultan Nazarbayev Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements ...  Nursultan Nazarbayev is a political leader and the President of Kazakhstan. ... he went on to become the secretary of the Kazakhstan Party and finally the President of the ... Being deeply influenced by the democratic set up of the U.S. and other .... With the first elections for the President of the Republic on December 1, 1991,...
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Ramzan Kadyrov, the Putin of Chechnya - The New Yorker  Feb 8, 2016 ... Life Along a Poisoned River ... The First Chechen War, which began in 1994, was a war of ... Russia when the Soviet Union disintegratedand ended two years later, ... Asked where the money for the celebration came from, Kadyrov told .... the elder Kadyrov was elected President of the republic, in a vote...
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Gorbachev: Chechen War 'Great, Tragic Mistake'  Dec 11, 2004 ... It was on 11 December 1994 that then President Boris Yeltsin ordered Russian troops into Chechnya to subdue the rebellious republic.
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How the 1980s Explains Vladimir Putin - The Atlantic  Feb 14, 2013 ... As the Soviet system disintegrated, the Russian president was a young KGB ... Here's how the experience would shape him -- and his country. ... Russian empire, independent Finland, the Soviet Union, and now Russia. ... brought into Moscow in summer 1996 as an outsider -- he was an operative on a...
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Moldova - Country Profile - Republic of Moldova - Nations Online  Republic of Moldova | Republica Moldova ... One of the poorest nations in Europe, Moldova became the first former Soviet state to elect a communist as its president in 2001. (Source: CIA - The World ... Capital City: Chisinau Other Cities:...
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Boris Yeltsin - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. ... elections, the first of which occurred while Russia was still a Soviet republic. ... Boris Yeltsin's Political Comeback and the Collapse of the Soviet Union ... Yeltsin disbanded the communist-dominated parliament in September 1993 and...