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July 1990:
Resigns from Communist Party

June 1991:
Elected president of Russian republic (in USSR)

August 1991:
Rallies citizens against anti-Gorbachev coup,
bans Russian communist party

December 1991:
Takes over from Mikhail Gorbachev as head of state

1992:
Lifts price controls, launches privatisation

October 1993:
Russia on brink of civil war,
Yeltsin orders tanks to fire at parliament, 187 people had been killed.

December 1994:
Sends tanks into Chechnya, which left tens of thousands of people dead.

June 1996:
Re-elected as Russian president,
suffers heart attack during campaign

1998:
Financial crisis, rouble loses 75% of its value

December 1999:
Resigns, appoints Vladimir Putin successor

BBC View:
"Mr Yeltsin may have disappointed Russians by bringing them neither peace nor prosperity."

"He did help end 70 years of Soviet Communism, and that, in the long run, is what he will probably be remembered for."

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The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 began on September 21, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin dissolved the country's legislature (Congress of People's Deputies and its Supreme Soviet), which opposed his moves to consolidate power and push forward with unpopular neoliberal reforms. Yeltsin's decree of September 21 contravened the then-functioning constitution; on October 15, after the end of the crisis, he ordered a referendum on a new constitution.

The Congress rejected the decree and voted to remove Yeltsin from presidency through impeachment. His estranged Vice President, Aleksandr Rutskoy, was sworn in in accordance with the existing constitution as Acting President. On September 28, public protests against Yeltsin's government began in earnest on the streets of Moscow where the first blood was shed. The army remained under Yeltsin's control, which determined the outcome of the crisis. The legislators found themselves barricaded inside the White House of Russia parliament building. For the next week, anti-Yeltsin protests grew, until a mass uprising erupted in the city on October 2. Russia was on the brink of civil war. At this point the security and military elites threw their support behind Yeltsin, besieged the parliament building, and through the use of tank artillery nearly destroyed the building and cleared it of the elected legislature.

By October 5, 1993, armed resistance to Yeltsin had been crushed. The ten-day conflict had seen the most deadly street fighting in Moscow since the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917. According to government estimates, 187 people had been killed and 437 wounded.

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