1991 in Russia

Events in the year 1991 in Russia.

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Events
  • March 10 - 500,000-participants rally on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. The main slogans of the action were the resignation of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, support for Boris Yeltsin, active participation in the all-Union referendum. Organizers: Democratic Russia, Moscow Association of Voters, Memorial Society.
  • March 17 - 1991 Russian presidential referendum: 71% of the participants voted in favor of introducing the post of the President of Russia. At the same day the referendum on the future of the Soviet Union was held.[1]
  • June 12 - 1991 Russian presidential election. Boris Yeltsin and Alexander Rutskoy elected as the first President and Vice President of Russia.[1]
  • August 19 - August Coup: the "State Committee for the State of Emergency" created from the hardline Union-level functioners wishing to reverse the USSR's disintegration. State of emergency declared in certain regions of the country, military units and tanks entered in Moscow. President Yeltsin issued an address "To the citizens of Russia", in which the actions of the State Emergency Committee are characterized as a coup. Yeltsin urged the population to rebuff the putschists. Start of mass pro-democratic rallies in Moscow and Leningrad.
  • August 22 - Putschists arrested. The white-blue-red flag restored as the Russian national flag.
  • December 8 - Belovezha Accords signed by Russia, Belarus and Ukraine declares the USSR as ceasing to exist.
  • December 25 - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic officially renamed into the Russian Federation.
  • December 26 - Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Notable births in 1991

Notable deaths in 1991

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1642 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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