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Boris Yeltsin

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Boris Yeltsin

1931–2007

President of Russia from 1991 to 1999

Interwar & WWII

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Biography

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism.

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1931
Birth

Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)

February 1 →
1990
Event

Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament.

May 29 →
1991
Event

Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.

June 12 →
1991
Event

Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.

July 10 →
1992
Event

Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

January 26 →
1992
Event

A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).

June 17 →
1993
Event

In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

January 3 →
1993
Event

Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.

September 21 →
1993
Event

Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.

October 4 →
1994
Event

Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.

July 26 →
1996
Event

First Chechnya War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

May 27 →
1999
Event

Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

August 9 →

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