... no longer be dismissed by the central authorities as they could be when USSR was still running. By late 1997 all chief executive officers were elected democratically. Russia's former president Boris Yeltsin tried many times to reform the status in which the government was at the time. He tried to make it a fully democratic country by drawing up new constitutions to make ... economy was in trouble, it was dropping like never before and it was in the worst state yet. Reformists tried to replace the economy into something that would work better, Yeltsin wanted to cut the budgets to somethi...

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