To restructure the Soviet administrative command system and implement a transition to a market-based economy, Yeltsin's shock program was employed within days of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The lower level was headed by Ruslan Khasbulatov, who became Yeltsin's most vocal opponent.

The partial results of liberalization ( lifting price controls ) included worsening already apparent hyperinflation, initially due to monetary overhang and exacerbated after the central bank, an organ under parliament, which was skeptical of Yeltsin's reforms, was short of revenue and printed money to finance its debt.

When campaigning opened at the beginning of 1996, Yeltsin's popularity was close to zero.

Chubais, who was not just Yeltsin's campaign manager but also the architect of Russia's privatization program, set out to use his control of the privatization program as the key instrument of Yeltsin's reelection campaign.

Chubais ' solution was to co-opt potentially powerful interests, including enterprise directors and regional officials, in order to ensure Yeltsin's reelection.

Support from the oligarchs was also crucial to Yeltsin's reelection campaign.

" The election became a two-man race, and Zyuganov, who lacked Yeltsin's resources and financial backing, watched haplessly as his strong initial lead was whittled away.

When appointed, Putin was a relatively unknown politician, but he quickly established himself both in public opinion and in Yeltsin's estimation as a trusted head of government, largely due to the Second Chechen War.

The last one on 26 November 1994 ended with capture of 21 Russian Army tank crew members, secretly hired as mercenaries by the FSK ( former KGB, soon renamed FSB ); their capture was sometimes cited as one of the reasons of Boris Yeltsin's decision to launch the open intervention.

Glinka's anthem was replaced soon after Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin took office.

He was at the height of his power in the later Yeltsin years, when he was deputy secretary of Russia's security council, a friend of Boris Yeltsin's influential daughter Tatyana, and a member of the Yeltsin " family " ( inner circle ).

Firing them was controversial though, as Korzhakov a few days before caught two of Yeltsin's campaign organizers with carrying USD500, 000 cash without invoices out of presidential administration building

It was rumoured that no important government appointment could happen without the Family's support By 1999, the Family also included two of Berezovsky's associates, his former AVVA partner Alexander Voloshin, who replaced Yumashev as Yeltsin's chief of staff, and Roman Abramovich.

In effect, the Russian population was divided to those who supported Boris Yeltsin's reforms and to those who did not.

The party opposed president Boris Yeltsin's and his prime ministers ' policies, earning the reputation of a determined opposition movement that nevertheless was devoted to democratic reforms ( in contrast, most of the opposition was communist and / or nationalist at that time ).

Communist support started to ebb, given the widespread electoral support at the time for the government's invasion of Chechnya in September 1999 and the popularity of Yeltsin's new prime minister, Vladimir Putin, who was widely seen as the ailing Yeltsin's heir apparent.

After Yeltsin's bid to reinstate Viktor Chernomyrdin as Russian prime minister was blocked by the Duma in September 1998, the President turned to Primakov as a compromise figure whom he rightly judged would be accepted by the parliament's majority.

There are indications that the political prisoners were gradually phased out over the years but it was only as a result of Boris Yeltsin's far reaching reforms in the 1990s that the very last prisoners were released from Kolyma.

The resulting widespread demoralization of federal forces, and the almost universal opposition of the Russian public to the conflict, led Boris Yeltsin's government to declare a ceasefire in 1996 and sign a peace treaty a year later.

In January 1996, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Berezovsky liaised with fellow oligarchs to form an alliance – which later became known as " Davos Pact " – to bankroll Boris Yeltsin's campaign in the upcoming presidential elections.

On his return to Moscow Berezovsky met and befriended Tatyana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's daughter, According to a later profile by The Guardian, " Berezovsky masterminded the 1996 re-election of Boris Yeltsin ...

Four months later the group split into two cliques fiercely competing for Yeltsin's favour.

They were later released in 1994 when Yeltsin's position was sufficiently secure.

In 1997, autos-to-Aeroflot mogul Boris Berezovsky – a member of the former President Boris Yeltsin's ' family ' – bought the Kommersant publishing house, which included Kommersant-daily, two serious weekly magazines ( the political Kommersant-vlast ( literally ' Power ') and the financial Kommersant-dengi (' Money ') – as well as entertainment magazines Domovoi and Avtopilot and Molotok, a teen magazine, which later incurred the authorities ' wrath.

The army, which had initially declared its neutrality, by Yeltsin's orders stormed the Supreme Soviet building in the early morning hours of October 4, and arrested the leaders of the resistance.

The Ground Forces reluctantly became involved in the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 after President Yeltsin issued an unconstitutional decree dissolving the Parliament, following the Parliament's resistance to Yeltsin's consolidation of power and his neo-liberal reforms.

* 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

The programs of liberalization and stabilization were designed by Yeltsin's deputy prime minister Yegor Gaidar, a 35-year-old liberal economist inclined toward radical reform, and widely known as an advocate of " shock therapy ".

Meeting in mid-October 1992 and encouraged by the electoral victory of former communists in Lithuania and growing resistance to President Boris Yeltsin's reforms in Russia, the Supreme Soviet solidly rejected the demand for a referendum.

Describing President Boris Yeltsin's performance as a " minus " overall, Lebed gained fame by suggesting that the country could use a military dictator like Augusto Pinochet.

Yet these efforts were overturned by Yeltsin's unilateral proclamation of radical market reforms in Russia on 28 October 1991 and the dissolution of the USSR in December of that year.

Candidates identified with Yeltsin's economic policies were overwhelmed by a huge protest vote, the bulk of which was divided between the Communists ( who mostly drew their support from industrial workers, out-of-work bureaucrats, some professionals, and pensioners ) and the ultra-nationalists ( who drew their support from disaffected elements of the lower middle classes ).

Having opposed Yeltsin's secessionist policies during his tenure as Soviet Premier, he was removed from his post as Russian SFSR Premier and succeeded in his post by acting Premier Oleg Lobov.

Seeing that Silayev was Yeltsin's favourite, and had won more votes than Bocharov, Silayev ran unchallenged in the second election round, and was thus elected by a large margin.

The released hostages were especially angered by Yeltsin's earlier order to use force.

The military leadership were unsure of both the rightness of Yeltsin's cause and the reliability of their forces, and had to be convinced at length by Yeltsin to attack the Parliament.

In 1995 the State Pushkin Prize was established by Boris Yeltsin's decree, with Sasha Sokolov being the first laureate.

In 1994, outraged by what she called “ genocide of the Chechen people ”, Bonner resigned from Yeltsin's Human Rights Commission and was an outspoken opponent to Russian armed involvement in Chechnya and critical of the Kremlin for allegedly returning to KGB-style authoritarianism under Vladimir Putin.

The Manticoran ships arrive at Yeltsin's Star, the system where Grayson is located, and are greeted by the small Grayson Navy.

He was appointed Director of the FSB on 9 August 1999 by Boris Yeltsin's decree, replacing Vladimir Putin.

Large excavation projects have been observed by U. S. satellite imagery as recently as the late 1990s, during the time of Boris Yeltsin's government after the fall of the Soviet Union.