Presidents_of_the_Russian_Federation

List of presidents of Russia

List of presidents of Russia

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The office of the president of Russia is the highest authority in the Russian Federation. The holder is the federation's head of state and has formal presidency over the State Council as well as being the commander in chief of the Russian Armed Forces. The office was introduced in 1918 after the February Revolution with the current office emerging after a referendum of 1991.[1] During the Soviet period of history, Russia was de jure headed by collective bodies such as the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, since the Soviet theory of government denied the very necessity of the presidential office. The office of the President of the Soviet Union was introduced in 1990 during Mikhail Gorbachev's unsuccessful reforms of the Soviet Union's one-party communist state. Gorbachev became first and last president of the Union.[2] His tenure was marked by the legal and political confrontation with Russia and other republics of the USSR which eventually led to their full independence in late 1991.

For Russian leaders prior to introduction of presidency, see List of leaders of Russia

Presidents

Main article: President of Russia
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Acting presidents

Main article: Acting President of Russia
See also: President of the Soviet Union § Acting President
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Timeline

Dmitry MedvedevVladimir PutinViktor ChernomyrdinAlexander RutskoyBoris Yeltsin
Graph of change of life expectancy in the Russian SFSR and Russia under various leaders

Subsequent public service

Two presidents held other high offices after leaving the presidency.

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See also

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Elected as President of the Russian SFSR shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Continued to serve his first term until 1996 despite adopting a new constitution after a military conflict with the parliament in 1993.
  2. [N 2]
    Acting Prime Minister until 17 May 2000.

References

  1. [1]
    Aluf, I. A. (1979). February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution of 1917 (3rd ed.). The Gale Group, Inc. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. [2]
    "End of the Soviet Union: Text of Gorbachev's Farewell Address". The New York Times. 26 December 1991. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
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