Title: Presidency of Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia
Headings: Presidency of Boris Yeltsin
Presidency of Boris Yeltsin
Contents
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

Content: 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. Contents
1 The election and inauguration
2 First term
2.1 State Committee on the State of Emergency
2.2 Dissolution of the Soviet Union
2.3 Russian constitutional crisis
2.4 Press Freedom in Russia
2.5 First Chechen War
2.6 Russian presidential election, 1996
3 Second term
4 Resignation
5 Bibliography
6 See also
7 References
The election and inauguration
Main article: First inauguration of Boris Yeltsin
On June 12, 1991 Yeltsin was elected as the first President of the Russian Federation, received 45,552,041 votes, representing 57.30 percent of the number who took part in the vote, and well ahead of Nikolai Ryzhkov, who, despite the support of the federal authorities, received only 16.85%. Together with Boris Yeltsin was elected a vice-president, Alexander Rutskoi. After the elections, Boris Yeltsin began the struggle with the privileges of the range and the maintenance of Russia's sovereignty within the USSR. These were the first in the history of Russian national presidential elections.