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First President of the Russian Federation
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On December 25, 1991, standing before a silent Kremlin camera, I switched off the Soviet flag and raised the white-blue-red tricolor, not as a ceremonial gesture, but as a deliberate, irreversible break with seven decades of centralized command. That act wasn’t symbolic theater; it was the culmination of a three-year struggle that included defying Gorbachev’s emergency committee in August 1991, barricading myself inside the White House while tanks rolled through Moscow, and drafting the Belovezh Accords with Kravchuk and Shushkevich, legally dissolving the USSR before it could reconstitute itself. My reforms weren’t abstract ideals: price liberalization on January 2, 1992, triggered immediate hardship but shattered the state’s monopoly on scarcity; the 1993 constitutional referendum created Russia’s first presidential system, even as it silenced parliamentary opposition by force. I governed amid collapsing institutions, unpaid wages, and nuclear arsenals scattered across newly sovereign states, and yet insisted, against all odds, that sovereignty must reside not in party statutes, but in citizens’ ballots.
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