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| 1990 |
| | | Boris Yeltsin, impatient with the pace of reform under Gorbachev, resigns from the Communist party | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Former Communist Boris Yeltsin is elected leader of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Boris Yeltsin foils a hard-line Communist coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, on holiday at the time in the Crimea | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The Soviet region of Chechnya proclaims its independence from the USSR, calling itself the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Three Soviet republics (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) declare independence, leading to the formal disbanding of the USSR | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Eight more Soviet Socialist republics vote to join the three founder members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the defunct USSR, handing power to Boris Yeltsin as president of the new Russian republic | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Mohammad Najibullah, Russia's puppet ruler in Afghanistan, is finally overwhelmed in Kabul by the mujaheddin | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Loyal troops storm the parliament in Moscow, ending a putsch against President Yeltsin | |
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| 1994 |
| | | After 18 years in the USA, living in Vermont, Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to post-Communist Russia | |
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