Putin comes to power
1999 · Event
Yeltsin resigns and names Vladimir Putin acting president, beginning Russia's defining political era of the 21st century.
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- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
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- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
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- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
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