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Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Russian Presidency naming Vladimir Putin as Acting President until new elections could be held in March of 2000. |
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Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin. He also fires his entire cabinet, for the fourth time. |
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Yeltsin fires Primakov, who was rapidly gaining popularity, and names Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin to replace him. |
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American heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey successfully performs quintuple heart bypass surgery on Russian leader Boris Yeltsin. |
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Boris Yeltsin wins re-election for a second term, after he recovers from a heart attack in June. |
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Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya to squash their separatist rebellion. The campaign lasts over two years and lead to the deaths of thousands of Russian citizens. |
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Communists headed by Kryuchkov initiate a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. |
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Boris Yeltsin stands defiantly on an armored personnel carrier and challenges the hard-liner coup against Soviet President Gorbachev. This will be his defining moment as a defender of democracy the high of his political career. |
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Boris Yeltsin commences his five-year term as the first elected president of Russia. |
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Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic. He receives 57% of the popular vote. |
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In a surprise, Boris Yeltsin is elected to the Soviet parliament based on his frequent and vocal campaignings against corruption within the political elite. |
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Angered by Yeltsin's comments on October 21, the Moscow City Party Committee meets, with Gorbachev in attendance, and strips Boris Yeltsin of his post as first secretary. |
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Boris Yeltsin becomes First Secretary of the CPSU Moscow City Committee but will be ousted in 1987 for criticizing Gorbachev and the pace of reform. |
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is born. |
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