Yeltsin elected leader of Russia
1990 · Event
Yeltsin becomes chairman of the Russian republic's Supreme Soviet; on 12 June it declares Russian sovereignty, setting up a rival centre of power to Gorbachev.
On these timelines: Fall of the Soviet Union, Russia & the USSR, Cold War, Master
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