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How did Boris Yeltsin become the president of Russia?

He overthrew Gorbachev in a coup d’état.
He was appointed by the Communist Party.
He was a military leader who took control.
He won the country’s first open election.

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He won the country’s first open presidential election. Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in June 1991 (the first competitive, nationwide vote for that office).