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Boris Yeltsin.
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Putin is a former KGB official who was active in Boris Yeltsin's administration after Yeltsin became President of Russia in 1991. Putin was the head of Russia's Security Council in 1999 and was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000 - he became Acting President when Yeltsin resigned at the end of 1999. He ran in the subsequent election and became President in May, 2000.
Boris Yeltsin
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At the fall of the Soviet Union the president of the Soviet Union was Mikhail Gorbachev. And the prime-minister of Russia was Boris Yeltsin.
Boris Yeltsin was elected the President of Russia in June 1991, in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.
Vladimir Putin was the president after Yeltsin.
No. Yeltsin was elected as Russia's second ever elected leader in 1991, shortly before the dissolving of the Soviet Union. He was the president of Russia, one of the then 15 republics of the USSR. His goal was to move the economy from socialism to a free market.
hiBoris Yeltsin, in full Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (b. February 1, 1931, Sverdlovsk [now Yekaterinburg], Russia, U.S.S.R.-d. April 23, 2007, Moscow, Russia), Russian politician, who became president of Russia in 1990. In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country's history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching until his resignation on the eve of 2000.
Boris Yeltsin was the Russian leader who was known for opposing a coup in the Soviet Union from a tank.