INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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Vladamir Putin
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Victor Yuschenko
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Mikail Gorbachev
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Dmitry Medvedev
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Detailed explanation-1: -On 31 December 1999, Yeltsin announced his resignation, with his chosen successor, then prime minister Vladimir Putin, succeeding him as acting president who then was elected to his first presidential term following an election held on 26 March 2000. Yeltsin left office widely unpopular with the Russian population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Yeltsin was born in a small village near the Ural Mountains on February 1, 1931. As a boy, he lost two fingers from his left hand after he and his friends played with grenades they had stolen from an army store. Yeltsin worked as a builder, then joined the Communist Party in 1961.
Detailed explanation-3: -Putin’s first campaign program On 31 December 1999, President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Under the Constitution of Russia, the then Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin became Acting President.