[DOC] [TLE] Boris Yeltsin - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999
. ... elections, the first of which occurred while Russia was still a Soviet republic. ... 
Boris Yeltsin's Political Comeback and the Collapse of the Soviet Union ... Yeltsin 
disbanded the communist-dominated parliament in September 1993 and... [DOC] [TLE] History of Russia (1991present) - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of Russia from 1991 to the present began with the dissolution of the 
Soviet Union on 26 December 1991, and the establishment of the Russian 
Federation. The Russian Federation was the largest of the fifteen republics that 
made up ... the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia 
in June... [DOC] [TLE] Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia [PAR] The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991, as a result of the 
declaration no. ... The Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the USSR (
Russian:  .... He proposed that future Communist Party elections should 
offer a choice ... The authorities did not break up the demonstration and even 
kept traffic out of... [DOC] [TLE] The Collapse of the Soviet Union - Milestones in the History of U.S. ... [PAR] Conditions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, however, changed rapidly. ... 
and provide support for a controlled restructuring or possible breakup of the 
Soviet Union. ... He resigned his leadership as head of the Communist party 
shortly ... leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian 
state. [DOC] [TLE] Collapse of the Soviet Union - 1989-1991 - GlobalSecurity.org [PAR] The USSR officially ceased to exist on 31 December 1991. .... "We must not 
appear before the world in our underwear or even without any," he told the 
Politburo inner ... Georgia declared sovereignty on 9 March 1990 and 
subsequently elected a ... Russia was one of the main initiators of the break-up of 
the Soviet Union. [DOC] [TLE] Russia after the Soviet Union  Russiapedia Russian history [PAR] In March 1990 Gorbachev became the President of the Soviet Union, the first and 
only man to hold the rank. ... He set up the Gorbachev Foundation, an 
independent think-tank, as well as ... but it wasn't until Gorbachev's rise to power 
that he's got his career break. ... However, he soon grew weary of the pace of 
perestroika. [DOC] [TLE] Boris N. Yeltsin, Reformer Who Broke Up the U.S.S.R., Dies at 76 ... [PAR] Apr 24, 2007 ... Boris N. Yeltsin, Russia's first freely elected leader, presided over the end of ... 
surgery shortly after his disputed re-election as Russian president in 1996. ..... In 
a still-puzzling incident before he became president, he turned up... [DOC] [TLE] Boris Yeltsin | president of Russia | Britannica.com [PAR] In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country's history, 
guiding ... Soon after, Yeltsin ordered the return of troops to the republic. In the ... 
charging that he had encouraged the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, ... 
Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (
200508). [DOC] [TLE] The Cold War for Kids: Collapse of the Soviet Union - Ducksters [PAR] Kids learn about the history of the Collapse of the Soviet Union which put an end 
to the Cold War. ... Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the 
Soviet Union in 1985. When he took over the Soviet Union economy was in bad 
shape and his idea ... Boris Yeltsin was the first President of Russia after the 
break up. [DOC] [TLE] Stephen Cohen: The breakup of the Soviet Union ended Russia's ... [PAR] Dec 13, 2006 ... For most western commentators the Soviet breakup was an ... of its president, 
Gorbachev; and property-seizing Soviet bureaucratic ... preserve the union - the 
Yeltsin ruling group soon became fearful of real democracy. ... media) when he 
used tanks to destroy Russia's popularly elected parliament in 1993. [DOC] [TLE] USSR Breakup: Tracing The Collapse Of The World's Last Great ... [PAR] Dec

Question: He was elected president of Russia shortly before the Soviet Union broke up
Answer: Boris Yeltsin