Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin21 August 1991
The hard-line coup collapses as military support shifts and resistance centered on the Russian White House succeeds.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The hard-line coup collapses as military support shifts and resistance centered on the Russian White House succeeds.
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