Putin was named acting president on New Year's Eve in 1999, when predecessor Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and apologized for the country's post-Soviet turmoil in a speech that stunned Russians.
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A U.S. Navy Attack Sub Crashed Into a Russian Submarine Near a Naval Baseit is likely that this and other incidents that occurred between NATO elements and Russia in the post-Cold War era fed into ...
Through his close relationship with the longtime chief of staff to Boris Yeltsin, Berezovsky became part of the former president's inner circle. In 1996, he led Russia's most powerful tycoons to ...
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