What the records say
- When
- 1992 – 4 Oct 1993
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 55.75° N, 37.62° E
- Description
- political unrest in Russia in September and October 1993
1993 Russian constitutional crisis
Conflict between Boris Yeltsin and the parliament
In September and October 1993, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country's parliament. Yeltsin performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament and instituting a presidential rule by decree system. The crisis ended with Yeltsin using military force to attack Moscow's House of Soviets and arrest the lawmakers.
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