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In 1991 communists staged a coup (overthrow) against president Gorbachev and his reforms. The newly elected president of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, occupied the White House in Moscow, and opposed the coup. Moscow citizens rallied behind Yeltsin and within three days the coup collapsed. At the end of 1991, the Soviet Union fell apart and the Russian Federation, led by Yeltsin, was born.

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15 republics declared independence and Soviet Union no longer existed.

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