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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician, elected President of the Russian SFSR in June 1991. He led resistance to the August 1991 coup attempt in Moscow and agreed the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. As first President of the Russian Federation until 1999, he oversaw rapid market reforms, a constitutional crisis in 1993 and the First Chechen War.
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