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RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: 2000 (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date March 24, 2000
Report Number RS20525
Report Type Report
Authors Stuart D. Goldman, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Russian President Boris Yeltsin's resignation at the end of 1999 elevated his little-known Premier, Vladimir Putin, to Acting President and set the scene for a presidential election on March 26, 2000 that Putin is considered certain to win. There is uncertainty in Russia and the West as to what sort of leader Putin might be. Some view him as an authoritarian, others as a pragmatic reformer. There is evidence to support either view. The character and policies of post-Yeltsin Russia affect a variety of important U.S. political, military, and economic interests.