Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin23 August 1991
Moves to bring key Soviet-era institutions and property inside Russia under Russian state control after the coup fails.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Moves to bring key Soviet-era institutions and property inside Russia under Russian state control after the coup fails.
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