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Boris Yeltsin was the Russian leader who was known for opposing a coup in the Soviet Union from a tank.
At the fall of the Soviet Union the president of the Soviet Union was Mikhail Gorbachev. And the prime-minister of Russia was Boris Yeltsin.
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Boris Yeltsin
Borris Yeltsin was elected by popular vote to the position of President of the Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in June 1991. He won 57% of the vote against with 6 other candidates. When the USSR was dissolved in December, Yeltsin remained in office, becoming the first president of the Russian Federation. He was reelected in 1996.
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blocked the August Coup
Boris Yeltsin was the Russian leader who was known for opposing a coup in the Soviet Union from a tank.
Boris Yeltsin was the Russian leader who was known for opposing a coup in the Soviet Union from a tank.
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic or simply Russia .
When the USSR ceased to exist in 1991, Russia became the obvious successor to the Soviet legacy - historically, territorially, militarily, etc. Boris Yeltsin was the President of Russia at the time, and in that sense can be considered Gorbachev's successor.