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Presidency of Boris Yeltsin
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The election and inauguration
First term
State Committee on the State of Emergency
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Russian constitutional crisis
Press Freedom in Russia
First Chechen War
Russian presidential election, 1996
Second term
Resignation
Bibliography
See also
References

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Presidency of Boris Yeltsin
July 10, 1991 – December 31, 1999

President
Boris Yeltsin
Party
Independent
Election
1991 and 1996
Seat
Moscow Kremlin
Vladimir Putin →



This article is part of
a series about
Boris Yeltsin
Early life
Presidency
Yeltsinism
CPSU membership
26th
27th Politburo
26th
27th Central Committee
28th Congress
Elections
1991
campaign
1996
campaign
Loans for shares
Semibankirschina
Soskovets campaign strategy
Xerox Affair
First term
1st inauguration
Cabinet
August Coup
Constitutional conference
1993 crisis
1st Chechen War
International trips
Second term
2nd inauguration
Ruble crisis
2nd Chechen War
Resignation
International trips
Post-Presidency
Presidential Center
Presidential Library
Illness
Death and state funeral
Media gallery
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At a press conference with American President Bill Clinton. October 24, 1995
The Russian Presidency of Boris Yeltsin, was the executive branch of the federal government of the Russian Federation from June 12, 1991 to December 31, 1999. Yeltsin was the first Russian president, and during his presidency, the country suffered from widespread corruption. As a result of persistent low oil and commodity prices during the 1990s, Russia suffered inflation, economic collapse and enormous political and social problems that affected Russia and the other former states of the USSR. Within a few years of his presidency, many of Yeltsin's initial supporters started to criticize his leadership, and Vice President Alexander Rutskoy even denounced the reforms as "economic genocide". Ongoing confrontations with the Supreme Soviet climaxed in the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis in which Yeltsin illegally ordered the dissolution of the Supreme Soviet parliament, which as a result decided to try to remove him from office. In October 1993, troops loyal to Yeltsin stopped an armed uprising outside of the parliament building, leading to a number of deaths. Yeltsin then scrapped the existing Russian constitution, banned political opposition and deepened his efforts to transform the economy. On December 31, 1999, under enormous internal pressure, Yeltsin announced his resignation, leaving the presidency in the hands of his chosen successor, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin left office widely unpopular with the Russian population.