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Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia  The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. ... The Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the USSR (Russian:  .... He proposed that future Communist Party elections should offer a choice ... The authorities did not break up the demonstration and even kept traffic out of...
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Collapse of the Soviet Union - 1989-1991 - GlobalSecurity.org  The USSR officially ceased to exist on 31 December 1991. .... "We must not appear before the world in our underwear or even without any," he told the Politburo inner ... Georgia declared sovereignty on 9 March 1990 and subsequently elected a ... Russia was one of the main initiators of the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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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...
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History of Russia (1991present) - Wikipedia  The history of Russia from 1991 to the present began with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991, and the establishment of the Russian Federation. The Russian Federation was the largest of the fifteen republics that made up ... the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia in June...
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union - Milestones in the History of U.S. ...  Conditions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, however, changed rapidly. ... and provide support for a controlled restructuring or possible breakup of the Soviet Union. ... He resigned his leadership as head of the Communist party shortly ... leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
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The Warrior Who Would Rule Russia: A Profile of Alexander Lebed.  Aug 6, 1996 ... curity adviser by the recently reelected President Boris Yeltsin. Lebed, who himself .... since he has assumed his new role as Yeltsin's chief security aide, he has been uninhibited ... contested Russian republic until December 31,2001. .... Following Russia's presidential election on June 16, 1996, which.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia  The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142- of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), ...... However, the registration came too late for Rukh to stand its own candidates...
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RUSSIA POURS TROOPS INTO BREAKAWAY REGION - The ...  Dec 12, 1994 ... By this evening the troops had stopped short of storming the Chechen ... President Boris Yeltsin said in a statement tonight that the troops had moved in "to ... among reformist politicians to using force against the breakaway republic. ... 25, 1994 -- Moscow-backed rebels attack Grozny with tanks and artillery.
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Mikhail Gorbachev - Wikipedia  Gorbachev Era  Revolutions of 1989  Dissolution of the Soviet Union. Leader of the Soviet ... He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General ... from 1989 to 1990, and as President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991). ... This was Gorbachev's third attempt to establish a political party, having...
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Regional Hostilities Unnerve Georgia as Ex-Soviet Republic Turns 25  Regional Hostilities Unnerve Georgia as Ex-Soviet Republic Turns 25 .... Eduard Shevardnadze, who as Soviet foreign minister during the Gorbachev era ... the first president of Georgia five years after the Soviet Union's formal dissolution. ... But Russia now occupies 20 percent of our territory, while in Ukraine's case, the...
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Kazakhstan's First President's Day - Kazakhstan | KazakhWorld  Dec 8, 2012 ... On December 1st, 1991, Kazakhstan elected its first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. ... 1st because that was the day President Nazarbayev was elected. ... Create a Customs Union with Russia and Belarus; Kazakhstan become chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)...
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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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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the .... Yeltsin was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) .... Yeltsin, acting as his own prime minister, ordered the liberalization of foreign .... However, now that relations between our two nations have improved...
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the ... Rather than creating new enterprises, Yeltsin's democratization led to .... On 11 March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the CPSU ... resign from the post of First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party.
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (/jltsn/; Russian:   , Boris Nikolajevi Jeljcin; IPA: [bris nklavt jeltsn] ( listen); 1 February 1931  23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
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Vladimir Putin Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  At Leningrad State University, Putin was the school's judo champion in 1974. ... said he had received "good but not great grades," though he was a "meticulous" student. ... Around the time Putin went to East Germany, Soviet leader Mikhail ... to grant Yeltsin immunity from any future criminal or administrative investigations.
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Dzhokhar Dudayev - Wikipedia  Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev was a Soviet Air Force general and Chechen leader, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, a breakaway state in ... Many of his military and political opponents who questioned his Muslim faith ... In November 1991, the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin dispatched troops...
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Boris Yeltsin - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999.
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Russian presidential election, 1996 - Wikipedia  Presidential elections were held in Russia on 16 June 1996, with a second round on 3 July. The result was a victory for the incumbent President Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent. Yeltsin defeated Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov in the run-off,...
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Mikhail Gorbachev - Wikipedia  Gorbachev Era  Revolutions of 1989  Dissolution of the Soviet Union. Leader of the Soviet ..... He went to France on his first trip abroad as Soviet leader in October. ... On 11 October 1986, Gorbachev and Reagan met at Hfi house in Reykjavk, .... Apart from this violence, three major events that altered the face of the...
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia  The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142- of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet .... Under Gorbachev's leadership, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1989...