Historical Figure
Boris Yeltsin
1931–2007
President of Russia from 1991 to 1999
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Key Dates
Birth
1931 February 1, 1931 →Death
2007 April 23, 2007 →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.
Timeline
The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
May 29 →In modern Russia's first democratic election, Boris Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia.
June 12 →en Rusia, Boris Yeltsin anuncia que su país ya no tendrá ciudades estadounidenses como blancos de sus armas atómicas.
January 26 →Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
September 21 →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 →Russian president Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.
September 21 →In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
January 3 →First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
December 11 →President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed accords in Moscow to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
January 14 →la primera guerra chechena termina con la firma de un tratado de paz por el presidente ruso Boris Yeltsin y el presidente checheno Aslán Masjádov. Sin embargo, el estatus político de Chechenia no está aclarado en el tratado.
May 12 →Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
December 31 →More from the Interwar & WWII
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