20 March 1997Helsinki Summit with ClintonBoris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Meets Bill Clinton in Helsinki for talks dominated by NATO enlargement and strategic arms control.
Historical records for Russia in 1997, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Meets Bill Clinton in Helsinki for talks dominated by NATO enlargement and strategic arms control.
Agrees with Bill Clinton to deepen NATO-Russia consultation while continuing to oppose NATO enlargement.
Promotes younger reformers, including Anatoly Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, to senior government posts.
Launches a reform agenda known as the Seven Main Tasks, emphasizing wage arrears, social support, monopolies and corruption.
Signs a union treaty with Belarus that deepens political and economic integration.
Meets Jiang Zemin as Russia and China deepen their strategic partnership and coordinate on international issues.
Signs a peace treaty with Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov pledging to reject force in future relations.
Signs the NATO-Russia Founding Act, establishing a formal framework for consultation and security cooperation.
Participates in the Denver summit as Russia becomes more fully integrated into meetings of leading industrial powers.
Reaches agreement with Jiang Zemin on demarcation of most of the long eastern Russia-China border.
Removes senior officials linked to a publishing-fee scandal while retaining Anatoly Chubais in government.
Boris Yeltsin appoints Putin Deputy Chief of Presidential Staff
Appointed Chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department
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