Assessing the 1996 presidential elections in Russia 2 Articles

by Stephen H

Boris Yeltsin was elected as the first Russian President in June 1991 and was defending his position at the 1996 elections where he faced opposition from the communist Gennady Zyuganov. Boris Yeltsin had been a reformer in...read more

by Marina Ivanova

More than ten years ago Russia faced the most dramatic presidential elections in its relatively short democratic period of history. From today's point of view, a decade old intense events of those days are viewed as histor...read more