Who are the past presidents of Russia?
- Boris Yeltsin (July 10, 1991 — December 31, 1999)
- Vladimir Putin (May 7, 2000 — May 7, 2008)
- Dmitry Medvedev (May 7, 2008 — May 7, 2012)
- Vladimir Putin (May 7, 2012 – Present)
President | Presidency | Subsequent service |
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Vladimir Putin | 2000–2008 | Prime Minister (2008–2012) |
President (2012–present) | ||
Dmitry Medvedev | 2008–2012 | Prime Minister (2012–2020) |
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council (2020–present) |
The abdication of Emperor Nicholas II on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917 as a result of the February Revolution ended 304 years of Romanov rule and led to the establishing of the Russian Republic under the Russian Provisional Government in the lead-up to the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.
Ukraine became independent again when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. This started a period of transition to a market economy, in which Ukraine suffered an eight-year recession. Subsequently however, the economy experienced a high increase in GDP growth until the economy plunged during the Great Recession.
Czar Nicholas II was the last Romanov emperor, ruling from 1894 until his forced abdication in March of 1917.
Boris Yeltsin | |
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Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Vladimir Putin |
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR | |
In office 29 May 1990 – 10 July 1991 |
After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgi Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.
Only the Russian state and Russian noblemen had the legal right to own serfs, but in practice commercial firms sold Russian serfs as slaves – not only within Russia but even abroad (especially into Persia and the Ottoman Empire) as "students or servants".
The last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, was executed by the Soviet government in 1918. The early Bulgarian emperors (10th to 14th century) and the 20th-century kings of Bulgaria (from 1908 to 1946) also called themselves tsars.
Who colonized Russia?
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Population.
Year | Population of Russia (millions) | Notes |
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1914 | 170.0 | includes new Asian territories |
The government was nervous having the Romanovs on British shores, while George V's private secretary, Lord Stamfordham, feared an uprising against the monarchy. The king soon urged the government to rescind the offer, leaving him open to claims that he abandoned his family for politics.

Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster
A descendant of Czar Michael I, the duke inherited a fortune worth some $12 billion at the age of 25, becoming one of the world's youngest billionaires when his father died in 2016. The duke is godfather to Prince George, who is currently third in line to the British throne.
The social causes of the Russian Revolution can be derived from centuries of oppression of the lower classes by the Tsarist regime and Nicholas's failures in World War I. While rural agrarian peasants had been emancipated from serfdom in 1861, they still resented paying redemption payments to the state, and demanded ...
Plans for NATO membership were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych, who preferred to keep the country non-aligned, was elected President. Amid the unrest, caused by the Euromaidan protests, Yanukovych fled Ukraine in February 2014.
On August 5, 1772, Russia, Prussia, and Austria signed a treaty that partitioned Poland.
Formally, these weapons were controlled by the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 1994, Ukraine agreed to destroy the weapons, and to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Ivan the Terrible was the first tsar of all Russia. During his reign, he acquired vast amounts of land through ruthless means, creating a centrally controlled government.
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The modern history of Russia began with the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1990–1991, proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990, and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later.
What happened to the Soviet Union in the 1990s?
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of the country's and its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty on 26 December 1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev | |
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Deputy | Vladimir Ivashko |
Preceded by | Konstantin Chernenko |
Succeeded by | Vladimir Ivashko (acting) |
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union |
In the decades after it was established, the Russian-dominated Soviet Union grew into one of the world's most powerful and influential states and eventually encompassed 15 republics—Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, ...
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The 30 largest countries in the world by total area (in square kilometers)
Characteristic | Area in square kilometers |
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Russia | 17,098,242 |
Canada | 9,984,670 |
USA | 9,833,517 |
The U.S.S.R. was the successor to the Russian Empire of the tsars. Following the 1917 Revolution, four socialist republics were established on the territory of the former empire: the Russian and Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republics and the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republics.