Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin19 August 1991
Emerges as the principal public leader of resistance to the State Committee for the State of Emergency.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Emerges as the principal public leader of resistance to the State Committee for the State of Emergency.
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