When did the soviet union change to 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. In his election campaign, Yeltsin criticized the "dictatorship of the center", but did not yet suggest that he would introduce a market economy.
When did the soviet union change to russia as measured by when Russia declared itself independent?
June 12, 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also referred to as the Soviet Union, which began in the second half of the 1980s with growing unrest in the national republics and ended on 26 December 1991, when the USSR itself was voted out of existence by the Supreme Soviet, following the Belavezha Accords. Declaration number 142-Н by the Supreme Soviet resulted in self-governing independence to the Republics of the USSR, formally dissolving the USSR. The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do so at all. On the previous day, 25 December, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the USSR, resigned, declared his office extinct and handed over its powers—including control of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes—to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. That evening at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary Russian flag.
When did the soviet union change to russia as measured by when the Soviet Union dissolved?
26 December 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the USSR. It began in the second half of the 1980s with growing unrest in the national republics. On June 12, 1991, Boris Yeltsin won 57 percent of the popular vote in the democratic elections and Russia declared itself independent. The Soviet Union dissolved on 26 December 1991 when the USSR itself was voted out of existence by the Supreme Soviet, following the Belavezha Accords.