... principles which have been emphasized for preceding centuries in the Russian culture. B. Summary of Evidence On December 25th of 1991, the Soviet Union officially fell apart under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, a newly elected President after a fail coup d'etat, after which Gorbachev resigned. This caused tremendous economic and social shifts in ideology. Industries, military, and ethnic groups that were once an ... all payments. In the decade leading to 2001, the GDP fell 39% (See Appendix A). Most of Russia's emerging problems were due to economic inequality, which was supported by p...

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... : of all the former Russian republics and autonomous republics, only Tatarstan and Chechnya refused to ratify the 1992 Russian Federation Treaty that established Yeltsin's present Russian Federation. Moscow immediately attacked both de facto secessions, and the Tatar case is pending appeal before the new Russian Constitutional Court ... conflict raged on for a year and a half before, in the beginning of 1996, President Boris Yeltsin agreed to end it, fearing it was about to claim yet another casualty, his political career. Yeltsin who had dispatched the troops in 1994 to crush the revolt ...

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