Yeltsin had the CPSU formally banned within the Russian SFSR on August 26.

The Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991 when Boris Yeltsin seized power in the aftermath of a failed coup that had attempted to topple reform-minded Gorbachev.

Upon convening in May, the congress elected Boris Yeltsin, a onetime Gorbachev protégé who had been exiled from the top party echelon because of his radical reform proposals and erratic personality, as president of the congress's permanent working body, the Supreme Soviet.

While Khasbulatov had been an ally of Yeltsin in this period, the two drifted apart following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991.

With a 3 % approval rating, Yeltsin had to buy the support of the oligarchs to win reelection in 1996.

At the time, many supporters of the president, Boris Yeltsin, had ceased taking part in the Parliament's work.

Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia in June 1991 in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.

On January 2, 1992, Yeltsin — acting as his own prime minister — enacted the most comprehensive components of economic reform by decree, thereby circumventing the Supreme Soviet of Russia and Congress of People's Deputies of Russia, which had been elected in March 1990, before the dissolution of the USSR.

Early in the campaign it had been thought that Yeltsin, who was in uncertain health ( after recuperating from a series of heart attacks ) and whose behavior was sometimes erratic, had little chance for reelection.

The " loans for shares " giveaway took place in the run-up to the 1996 presidential election — at a point when it had appeared that Zyuganov might defeat Yeltsin.

In the outlying regions of the country, the Yeltsin campaign relied on its ties to other allies — the patron-client ties of the local governors, most of whom had been appointed by the president.

The Zyuganov campaign had a strong grass-roots organization, but it was simply no match to the financial resources and access to patronage that the Yeltsin campaign could marshal.

Yeltsin then named Sergei Stepashin, who had formerly been head of the FSB ( the successor agency to the KGB ) and later been Interior Minister, to replace him.

On 12 February 1993 President Yeltsin issued a presidential decree “ On Public Order Militia in the Russian Federation ” increasing the number of local militia by 84, 500 .< Ref > MVD v Litsakh, Vladimir Nekrasov, Molodaya Gvardiya, 2000, p260 .</ ref > At the beginning of 1994 the local militia had 442, 000 people, 27 % short of their full complement.

Mulroney also stated that the work he had performed for his arms-trading business associate Schreiber was out-of-country, rather than lobbying his own Canadian government – such as lobbying the late President Boris Yeltsin that Russia buy arms yet to be made in Canada.

The incident made headlines around the world as it was alleged that Yeltsin was too drunk to appear although a Russian official said that Yeltsin was unwell and Yeltsin himself later stated that he had overslept.

In 1998, Russian President Boris Yeltsin admitted that the invasion had in fact constituted a Soviet war of aggression.

It is planned that it will have remained at the disposal of Vladimir Putin after the term ending, as Gorki-9 () ( also called Barvikha (), but actually near it ) had remained at the disposal of Boris Yeltsin after his retirement.

In the summer of 1996, Berezovsky had emerged as a key advisor to Yeltsin, allied with Anatoly Chubais, opposing a group of hardliners led by General Alexander Korzhakov.

Both sides appealed to Yeltsin, who had proclaimed a new era of " fair " privatization " based on strict legislative rules and allowing no deviations .".

By the end of 1999 the Family had persuaded Yeltsin to name Putin his political successor and candidate for the presidency.

On 9 August Yeltsin sacked the government of Sergei Stepashin and appointed Putin prime minister, amid reports that Berezovsky had masterminded the reshuffle

While President Boris Yeltsin frequently used his power of pardon, his successor Vladimir Putin was much more hesitant ; in the final years of his presidency he did not grant pardons at all.

Salii told journalists that he and colleagues had examined some 1, 500 photographs and gathered evidence showing that a " New Yeltsin " had appeared after 1996, with the supposed decoy frequently displaying his injured hand, whereas the real Yeltsin had always tried to conceal that hand.

In July 1995, Yeltsin disappeared from public view for weeks following a heart operation.

Despite Gorbachev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected as president, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote.

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While this spared Yeltsin from the prospects of parliamentary bargaining and wrangling, it also eliminated any meaningful discussion of the right course of action for the country.

In 1994, Yeltsin ordered 40, 000 troops to prevent the separation of the southern region of Chechnya from Russia.

Panic struck the Yeltsin team when opinion polls suggested that the ailing president could not win ; members of his entourage urged him to cancel presidential elections and effectively rule as dictator from then on.

Although Yeltsin promised that he would abandon his unpopular neoliberal austerity policies and increase public spending to help those suffering from the pain of capitalist reforms, within a month of his election, Yeltsin issued a decree canceling almost all of these promises.

After the success of political forces close to Putin in the December 1999 parliamentary elections, Yeltsin evidentially felt confident enough in Putin that he resigned from the presidency on December 31, six months before his term was due to expire.

In 1977, the Ipatiev House was demolished by order of Boris Yeltsin, to prevent it from being used as a rallying location for monarchists.

Studies of American broadcasting into the Soviet bloc, and testimonials from Czech President Vaclav Havel, Polish President Lech Walesa, and Russian President Boris Yeltsin support that soft power efforts of the United States and its allies during the Cold War were ultimately successful in creating the favorable conditions that led to the collapse of the Soviet empire.

From September 23 ( given actual effect from October 4, after the armed disbanding of the Supreme Soviet ) to December 12, 1993, rule by decree ( ukases ) was imposed in Russia by President Boris Yeltsin, during transition from the Russian Constitution of 1978 ( which was modelled after the obsolete Soviet Constitution of 1977 ) to the current 1993 Constitution

However, when Vladimir Putin took over from Yeltsin in 2000, he began to clamor for a restoration of Alexandrov ’ s music in place of Yeltsin's choice.

On 17 October 1996, Yeltsin dismissed General Alexander Lebed from the position of National Security Advisor amid allegations that he was plotting a coup and secretly mustering a private army.

Chubais retaliated by persuading Yeltsin to dismiss Boris Berezovsky from the national security council.

Boris Yeltsin won the first presidential election in June 1991 and, upon inauguration, resigned from the office of the Supreme Soviet Chairman.

The GRU had recruited Basayev when they saw him and the Chechens of Moscow stand for and defend Boris Yeltsin from the Communists, with Basayev and his Chechens attacking the Communists.

It is regarded that the popularity of Zhirinovsky and his party arose from the electorate's dissatisfaction with Yeltsin, and their desire for a non-communist solution.

In 1992, Russian president Boris Yeltsin disclosed five top-secret memos dating from late 1983, memos that had been written within weeks of the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.

The term, which can be exactly translated as " people of force " ( from си ́ ла, " force "), derives from the term " structures of force ", which appeared in the earlier Boris Yeltsin era ( early 1990s ) to denote the military-style uniformed services, including military proper, police ( Ministry of Interior ), national security ( KGB / FSB ) and some other structures.

He was fired from the Security Council by President Yeltsin in October 1996, following Lebed's major conflict with the influential Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov.