Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin17 August 1998
Confronts a financial emergency after the government restructures domestic debt and allows the ruble to fall.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Confronts a financial emergency after the government restructures domestic debt and allows the ruble to fall.
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