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THE POST-SOVIET
PERIOD, 1991— |
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1991-- |
BORIS
NIKOLAEVICH YELTSIN |
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January |
Soviet army attacks public buildings in Riga and Vilnius
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June 12 |
Boris Yeltsin becomes
first democratically elected
Russian President |
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July 10 |
Yeltsin's inauguration
Bodies of Nicholas II and family exhumed |
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THE AUGUST 1991
COUP |
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August 19 |
Yanayev, Pugo,
Yazov and 3 others announce take-over |
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August 20 |
Yeltsin speaks to
crowd from tank then barricades himself in Parliament
building |
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August 21 |
Latvia declares its independence
Gorbachev returns
from house arrest in Crimea |
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August 22 |
Pugo commits suicide |
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August 24 |
Gorbachev resigns as head of CP and Yeltsin closes Pravda and
disbands CP |
| 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 |
| Dec
1 |
Ukrainian referendum on independence passed by 90.3% |
| Dec 8 |
Presidents of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine sign treaty to abolish USSR and
form CIS |
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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 atWestminster
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 |
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| 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 Deputiesand 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 |
| 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
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| Decr 12 |
Russian troops invade Chechnya |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1998 |
|
| March 23 |
Yeltsin fires Chernomyrdin, reorganizes cabinet |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1999 |
|
| 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 |
| 2000 |
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March 26 |
Vladimir Putin elected president |
