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Events on Tuesday 29 May 1990 1
1990Yeltsin elected chairman of the Russian Supreme SovietReformer takes power in RussiaBoris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on May 29, 1990, beginning his rise to power that would culminate in the dissolution of the USSR.