JULY 30, 1991: MARCHING TO THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION, TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO

A HANDSHAKE 

ON THE WAY TO 

THE END OF 

THE SOVIET UNION 

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO 

U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH MEETS 

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN 

IN YELTSIN'S NEW KREMLIN OFFICE 

July 30, 1991 

Story coming in RUSSIA REDUX, Ch. 4 

"Russia Takes a President; the U.S. Takes Notice" 

BORIS YELTSIN INAUGURATED AS RUSSIA'S FIRST POPULARLY ELECTED PRESIDENT, TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO TODAY

THE FIRST INAUGURATION  

OF THE FIRST 

POPULARLY ELECTED 

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT  

July 10, 1991 

BORIS YELTSIN, 

to the left of the photograph, 

with the head of 

the Russian parliament, 

RUSLAN KHASBULATOV, 

to his right, 

stands during the ceremony 

of his first inauguration 

the personalized invitation