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Vice President: Acting president during the 1993 constitutional crisis. His powers were not recognized by Boris Yeltsin. Viktor Chernomyrdin Виктор Черномырдин 1938–2010 (aged 72) 5–6 November 1996 Prime Minister: Acting president during Boris Yeltsin's heart surgery. Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин Born 1952 ...
It was founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley. [2] [3] The institution was registered as Royal United Service Institute for Defence and Security Studies and formerly known as the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. The current president of RUSI is the Duke of Kent and its director-general is Karin von ...
The modern history of Russia began with the Russian SFSR, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1988–1991, proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990, and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later.
Russia retained its nuclear arsenal but lost its superpower status. Scrapping the central planning and state-ownership of property of the Soviet era in the 1990s, new leaders, led by President Vladimir Putin, took political and economic power after 2000 and engaged in an assertive foreign policy. Coupled with economic growth, Russia has since ...
Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of the Russian Federation. Prime Minister Putin became acting president. 2000: 26 March: 2000 Russian presidential election: Putin was elected President of Russia with 53 percent of the vote. 12 August: Russian submarine Kursk explosion: An explosion disabled the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk.
The president of Russia, officially the president of the Russian Federation (Russian: Президент Российской Федерации, romanized: Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii), is the executive head of state of Russia. The president is the chair of the Federal State Council and the supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed ...
Founded in Russia in the 1930s, the company was owned by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... In 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin also ...
In June 1991, Boris Yeltsin became the first directly elected President in Russian history when he was elected President of the Russian SFSR. [176] In August 1991, a coup d'état attempt by members of Gorbachev's government, directed against Gorbachev and aimed at preserving the Soviet Union, instead led to the end of the Communist Party of the ...