Yeltsin elected Russian president
June 12, 1991
Boris Yeltsin won the first direct presidential election in Russian history with fifty-seven percent of the vote. Two months later he stood on a tank outside the Russian White House and stared down an attempted coup against Gorbachev. By December he had presided over the dissolution of the USSR. The new Russia had its first president.
In context
Also in 1991 (6 other events on record)
- Soviet Union dissolved · Europe · Politics
- Mount Pinatubo Erupts · Southeast Asia · Disaster
- Yugoslavia begins to break up · Europe · War
- World Wide Web opens to the public · Europe · Technology
- Gulf War begins · Middle East · War
- Soviet coup attempt · Europe · Politics
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