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THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD, 1991 |
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1991-- |
BORIS NIKOLAEVICH YELTSIN |
January |
Soviet army attacks public buildings in Riga and Vilnius |
June 12 |
Boris Yeltsin becomes first democratically elected Russian President |
July 10 |
Yeltsin's inauguration
Bodies of Nicholas II and family exhumed |
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THE AUGUST 1991 COUP |
August 19 |
Yanayev, Pugo, Yazov and 3 others announce take-over |
August 20 |
Yeltsin speaks to crowd from tank then barricades himself
in Parliament building |
August 21 |
Latvia declares its independence
Gorbachev returns from house arrest in Crimea |
August 22 |
Pugo commits suicide |
August 24 |
Gorbachev resigns as head of CP and Yeltsin closes Pravda and disbands CP |
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Sept 5 |
State Council set up by Congress of People's Deputies to govern in emergency |
Sept 7 |
Baltic states recognized |
Fall |
Leningrad renamed 'St. Petersburg' |
Nov 1 | COMECON dissolves |
Nov 15 | Freedom to import and export established |
Dec1 | Ukrainian referendum on independence passed by 90.3% |
Dec 8 | Presidents of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine sign treaty to abolish USSR and form CIS |
Dec 25 |
Gorbachev announces his resignation and USSR ceases to exist |
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1992 | |
Jan 2 | Prime Minister frees prices
Ruble plummets; prices sky-rocket |
March 31 | Federation Treaty signed by all autonomous republics except Chechnya & Tatarstan |
May 6 | Gorbachev closes an era at Westminster College |
May 15 | Treaty on Collective Security: Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan |
April 1 | Western nations announce $24 billion aid package for Russia |
April 6 | Congress of People's Deputies begins its attack on the government |
June 15 |
Yegor Gaidar appointed acting prime minister |
Oct 1 |
Voucher privatization begins |
Dec 14 | Victor Chernomyrdin replaces Yegor Gaidar as prime minister |
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1993 | |
March 11 | Congress of People's Deputies passes resolution limiting powers of government to implement reforms |
March 20 | Yeltsin introduces 'special presidential rule' |
March 23 | Speaker of Congress Khasbulatov calls for impeachment of Yeltsin |
April 3-4 | US-Russian summit in Vancouver |
April 25 | Referendum supports the president and the reforms |
August 31 | Soviet troops withdrawn from Lithuania (not Latvia & Estonia) |
Sept 18 | Gaidar rejoins government as first deputy prime minister |
Sept 21 | President dissolves Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet of RF and calls for election of Federal Assembly |
Sept 22 | Parliament appoints Vice President Rutskoi president |
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STORMING OF THE HOUSE OF THE SOVIETS, October 2-4 |
Octr 3 | Parliamentary forces attack Ostankino TV and mayor's office |
Octr 4 |
Government forces storm the parliament building |
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Dec 12 |
Elections of first Federal Assembly of Russia and referendum to ratify Russian Constitution |
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1994 | |
Jan 11 | Federal Assembly begins its work |
Feb 23 | State Duma passes amnesty for political and economic crimes |
June 16 | Yegor Gaidar resigns as first deputy prime minister |
July | Yeltsin meets with G-7 leaders in Naples |
Oct 11 | Ruble crashes |
Oct 28 | Solzhenitsyn addresses the State Duma |
Nov 28 |
Russian Security Council votes to send troops to Chechnya  |
Decr 12 |
Russian troops invade Chechnya |
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1995 | |
Jan 27 | Federal Assembly bans loans from Central Bank to the government without its approval |
spring |
Russians massacre villagers in Samashky |
June 14 |
Chechens take hostages at Budennovsk |
July | Yeltsin suffers first heart attack |
Oct 26 | Yeltsin suffers second heart attack |
Dec 17 | CPRF under Gennady Zyuganov dominates Duma elections |
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1996 | |
Jan 5 |
Kozyrev resigns as foreign minister; replaced by Primakov |
March 29 |
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan sign integration accords in Moscow |
April 2 |
Russia & Belarus sign 'Agreement on the Formation of a Community' |
June 16 | Presidential primaries: Yeltsin & Zyuganov (Communist Party) win |
June 26 |
Ukrainian Parliament adopts constitution |
July 3 |
Yeltsin defeats Zyuganov in run-off election |
July 12 | Ukrainian constitution signed by President Kuchma |
August 5 | Chechen rebels re-take Grozny |
August 23 | Full-scale combat operations end in Chechnya |
August 31 | Lebed and Aslan Maskhadov sign peace accord in Chechnya |
Nov 5 | Yeltsin undergoes quintuple by-pass surgery |
Nov 28 | Belorussian President Lukashenko signs new constitution extending his powers and replaces the parliament |
Dec 1 | Russian troops begin withdrawal from Chechnya |
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1997 | |
Jan 1 |
New Criminal Code replaces 1960 Soviet code |
Jan 27 |
Chechen elections held; Aslan Maskhadov wins with 65% |
March 21 |
Yeltsin and Clinton meet in Helsinki to discuss expansion of NATO |
April |
Union Treaty signed |
May 26 |
Russian-Belarus Union Charter signed by Lukashenko and Yeltsin |
May 27 | Yeltsin and Clinton sign "Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation" which creates a permanent joint council including Russia in NATO decision-making. |
June 11 |
Russian-Belarus Union Charter goes into effect |
June 28 |
Tajik Peace and National Reconciliation Accord signed in Moscow |
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1998 |
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March 23 |
Yeltsin fires Chernomyrdin, reorganizes cabinet
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April 24 |
Sergei Kirienko finally confirmed as prime minister |
May 27 |
Massive sell-off of Russian bonds, securities and rubles |
July 17 |
Nicholas II and family interred in St. Petersburg |
August |
Russian financial crisis
- Kirienko announces ruble devaluation (August 17)
- Market paralyzed by liquidity shortages
- Share prices plunge
- Russia defaults foreign loans
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August 23 |
Yeltsin sacks entire government, appoints Chernomyrdin interim PM |
Sept 10 |
Victor Chernomyrdin steps aside as Duma rejects nomination twice |
Sept 11 |
Yuri Primakov confirmed prime minister |
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1999 |
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May 12 |
Yeltsin sacks cabinet, including Primakov |
May 13 | Impeachment hearings begins in Duma |
May 15 | Impeachment vote against Yeltsin fails |
May 19 |
Duma approves Sergei Stepashin as new Prime Minister |
August 9 | Stepashin dismissed as prime minister |
August 16 |
Vladimir Putin confirmed prime minister |
September |
Russian money-laundering scheme via BONY unravels |
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2000 |
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March 26 |
Vladimir Putin elected president |
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