boris yeltsin became leader of russia after the collapse of the soviet union.
boris yeltsin became leader of russia after the collapse of the soviet union.
who became leader of russia after the collapse of the soviet union?
boris yeltsin
in march 1992, the yeltsin government contracted kroll associates to track down and find very large sums of money that had been removed from the soviet union prior to the august 1991 putsch on the russian white house. in 1992, first deputy prime minister yegor timurovich gaidar said, "last year saw large-scale privatization by the nomenklatura, privatization by officials for their own personal benefit." gaidar called the communists and kgb officials criminals and that a "a vigorous search" for the money trails from state-owned capital had flowed abroad virtually unchecked before the collapse of the soviet union in the summer of 1991. on march 15, 1992, the russian government froze all capital outflows from russia. in april 1992, kroll associates began their investigations with joseph serio heading the kroll associates efforts in moscow. also, joseph rosetti, the vice chairman of kroll associates, was in moscow to assist. the kroll associates determined that more than $14 billion in 1991 real dollars had been transferred from switzerland to new york prior to the august 1991 putsch. also, the communist party of the former soviet union along with other government agencies, such as the kgb, had transferred more than $40 billion in 2014 real dollars out of the country. the assets of the vneshekonombank were frozen during the investigation. however, numerous transactions occurred to bypass the capital flow restrictions often with the british barclays bank in cyprus acting a money laundering center for public officials from saint petersburg and moscow. according to valery makharadze, the government's chief inspector, many joint stock companies were formed to provide an illegal means for capital outflows from russia, such as the leningrad association of joint ventures and kolo. numerous officials became wealthy russian oligarchs including numerous former kgb officials, prominent communists such as oleg belyakov and other former communists who headed the party central committee department that dealt with the defense industry, as well as leonid kravchenko, who was the former head of the state television and radio company. jules kroll, the head of the kroll associates, uncovered hundreds of illicit transactions with massive capital outflows. this outflow of capital from the soviet union and russia directly contributed to severe economic conditions in russia during boris yeltsin's second term, leading to its collapse, and resulting in the age of vladimir putin as the president of russia.
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in armenia, 12% of respondents said the ussr collapse did good, while 66% said it did harm. in kyrgyzstan, 16% of respondents said the collapse of the ussr did good, while 61% said it did harm. ever since the collapse of the ussr, annual polling by the levada center has shown that over 50 percent of russia's population regretted its collapse, with the only exception to this being in 2012. a 2018 levada center poll showed that 66% of russians lamented the fall of the soviet union. according to a 2014 poll, 57 percent of citizens of russia regretted the collapse of the soviet union, while 30 percent said they did not. elderly people tended to be more nostalgic than younger russians. 50% of respondents in ukraine in a similar poll held in february 2005 stated they regret the disintegration of the soviet union. however, a similar poll conducted in 2016 showed only 35% ukrainians regretting the soviet union collapse and 50% not regretting this. on 25 january 2016, russian president vladimir putin blamed vladimir lenin and his advocating for the individual republics' right to political secession for the breakup of the soviet union.
dissolution of the soviet union