23h 3min, dec 27, 1991 y - Boris Yeltsin takes office
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Boris Yeltsin seized Gorbachev's office in the Kremlin. At this point Gorbachev became yesterday's man. The final line had been drawn under the Cold War.
Yeltsin - First president of Russia
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23h 3min, dec 27, 1991 y
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~ 33 years ago