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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Russia's President Boris Yeltsin

Wednesday Jun 12, 1991
Russia

On June 12, 1991, Boris Yeltsin won 57 percent of the popular vote in the democratic elections, defeating Gorbachev's preferred candidate, Nikolai Ryzhkov, who won 16 percent of the vote. Following Yeltsin's election as president, Russia declared itself independent.


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