Boris Yeltsin was elected President in 1991, replacing Mikhail Gorbachev.
Boris Yeltsin was elected President in 1991.
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The first elected president 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.
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Vladimir Putin.
An elected President.
There was no president in Russia at this time. Russia has only had presidents since 1991. The Holocaust was in the 1940s.
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.
Boris Yeltsin.
by being elected
Though the fairness of recent elections has been questioned by observers, the president of Russia is elected by his people in a direct popular election. It should be noted though, that while the president is the head of state, the prime minister, who is selected by the president and approved by the Duma, is the head of the government.