Vladimir Putin elected President
Yeltsin's successor wins the election in the first round
After Boris Yeltsin resigned on 31 December 1999, Vladimir Putin became acting president. On 26 March 2000 he won the election in the first round with 53% of the vote and took office on 7 May.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 20 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 8 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 11 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 11 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 9 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 8 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 2 years later
Middle East
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 21 years earlier
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 20 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 10 years earlier
Africa
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 17 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 6 years earlier
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 25 years earlier
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — 11 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 9 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 4 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 11 years later
Americas
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 17 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 10 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 1 year later
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 3 years later
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 7 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 8 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 82)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 70)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 89)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 81)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 76)
- Fidel Castro (aged 74)
- Elizabeth II (aged 74)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 73)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 69)
- Boris Yeltsin (aged 69)