Legislative elections were held in Russia on 19 December 1999 to elect the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Like in the previous elections in 1995, the electoral s
Gennady Zyuganov and Govorukhin in 1998
Shoigu 2000s portrait
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov 1999
Sergei Kirienko World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2000
Unity was a Russian political party that was created on 3 October 1999, supported by Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and dozens of Russian governors to counter the thre
1999 Russian legislative election
…popularity of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ahead of the 2000 presidential election. Although the Communists still had the largest number of seats, the Unity party, endorsed by Putin, was in a close second. The Fatherland - All Russia bloc of former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov…
Putin with members of the Unity parliamentary group, 2002