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Boris Yeltsin

First President of Russia (1991–1999).

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Dates
1 Feb 1931 – 23 Apr 2007
Also known as
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
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  1. Life 1 Feb 1931 – 23 Apr 2007
  2. head of Russian government (President of Russia) 1991 – 31 Dec 1999

Boris Yeltsin led the resistance to the August 1991 coup attempt and, with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus, signed the Belovezha Accords that ended the Soviet Union. He was President of Russia until 31 December 1999, when he made Vladimir Putin acting president.

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  1. 1 Feb 1931 – 23 Apr 2007 Boris Yeltsin
  2. 1991 – 31 Dec 1999 Boris Yeltsin head of Russian government
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  1. Russia: Yeltsin Resigns, Putin Vows to Focus on Economy, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 31 Dec 1999. Scholarship & press
    Russian President Boris Yeltsin says he resigned today after nine years in office because of Russia's overall problems and not because of his personal health problems.
  2. The Collapse of the Soviet Union (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
  3. U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1981-1991 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Yeltsin turned back a coup against Gorbachev in August 1991, but in subsequent months consolidated authority over political and military institutions, and increasingly supported Russian independence and dissolution of the Soviet Union.
  4. Stanislau Shushkevich, First Leader Of Independent Belarus, Dead At 87, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 4 May 2022. Scholarship & press
    On December 8, 1991, Shushkevich, then the chairman of parliament, met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk at a resort in a forest in western Belarus and signed the Belavezha Accords
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