CHRONOLOGY - Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present - page 433

1993
(January) START-2 Treaty signed in Moscow.
(March) Yeltsin declares emergency presidential
rule after Congress of Peoples' Deputies limits
the government's power to implement reform.
(March) Speaker of Congress Ruslan Khasbula-
tov calls for Yeltsin's impeachment.
(April) Yeltsin meets President Clinton at sum-
mit in Vancouver, Canada.
Referendum supports president and reforms.
(August) Russian troops withdraw from Lithua-
nia but remain in Latvia and Estonia.
(September) Gaidar rejoins government as first
deputy prime minister.
Yeltsin dissolves Russian parliament.
Parliament appoints Vice President Rutskoi as
president.
(October) Troops loyal to Yeltsin fire on the Rus-
sian parliament building.
(December) New Russian constitution approved
and new parliament called the Federal
Assembly of Russia is elected; parliamentary
elections make the Liberal Democratic Party,
led by right-wing extremist Vladimir Zhiri-
novsky, the largest party in the Duma.

(June) Chechens take hostages at Budennovsk.
(July) Yeltsin suffers first heart attack.
(October) Yeltsin-Clinton summit in Hyde Park,
New York.
Yeltsin suffers second heart attack.
(December) New Duma elections make the
Communist Party, led by Gennadi Ziuganov,
the largest party in the Duma.

1996
(January) Evgenii Primakov replaces Andrei
Kozyrev as Russian foreign minister.
(March) Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyr-
gystan sign integration accords in Moscow.
(April) G-7 leaders and Yeltsin meet in Moscow;
Yeltsin visits China.
(June) Ukrainian Parliament adopts constitu-
tion.
(June-July) Yeltsin wins two-stage presidential
election.
(August) Yeltsin inaugurated as first elected pres-
ident of independent Russia.
Chechens retake Grozny; full-scale Russian
operations end in Chechnya; special presi-
dential envoy Aleksandr Lebed and Aslan
Maskhadov sign peace accord in Chechnya.
(November) Yeltsin undergoes quintuple bypass
surgery.
Belorussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko
signs new constitution extending his powers
and replaces parliament.
(December) Russian troops begin withdrawal
from Chechnya.

1994
(January) Federal Assembly begins its work.
(February) State Duma passes amnesty for polit-
ical and economic crimes.
Moscow signs treaty with Tatarstan granting it
considerable autonomy.
(June) Gaidar resigns as first deputy prime min-
ister.
(July) Yeltsin meets G-7 leaders in Naples, Italy.
(October) Ruble crushes.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn addresses the State Duma.
(December) Russian invasion of Chechnya begins.

1997
(January) New Criminal Code replaces 1960
Soviet code.
Chechen elections held; Maskhadov wins 65
percent of the vote.
(March) Yeltsin and U.S. President Clinton meet
in Helsinki to discuss expansion of NATO.
(April) Union Treaty signed.
(May) Russian-Belarus Union Charter signed by
Lukashenko and Yeltsin.
Yeltsin and Clinton sign “Founding Act on
Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security

1995
(January) Federal Assembly bans loans from
Central Bank to the government without its
approval.
(May) Yeltsin-Clinton summit in Moscow.
(June) Russian-Ukrainian agreement on Black
Sea Fleet.