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Sunday, June 12, 2011

BORIS YELTSIN AND RUSSIA'S FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, TWENTY YEARS LATER: COUNTDOWN TO THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION


RUSSIA'S FIRST 
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 
JUNE 12, 1991 


BORIS YELTSIN, 
THE WINNER OF THAT ELECTION, 
RUSSIA'S FIRST 
DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT, 
CASTING HIS BALLOT 

For more of the story, and a look at what happened after the voting, see here 

For a Washington Post analysis in the context of the run-up to the end of the USSR, see here 

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