votes of the working people, primarily miners, dissatisfied with rising prices, the ardent populist kuzbasovetsev fought, and sought the liberal intelligentsia. a constant theme for yeltsin was the emphasis on russian sovereignty, especially economic sovereignty, which was supposed to ensure the republic’s withdrawal from the crisis. it was not limited to naked criticism. he also took up the theme of a renewed union, promising to speed up the preparation of a union treaty. yeltsin’s access to the media was extremely limited in june 1991; russian television was then only taking its first steps, but most of all yeltsin worked on the almighty myth of the people's defender, who is persecuted by the evil authorities, but will bypass all ambushes and will definitely win. the attractiveness of this people. hopes carried boris yeltsin to inevitable victory. about 75% of voters took part in the elections. based on voting results. was devastating. third place with almost 8% was sensationally won by vladimir zhirinovsky, who from that moment became a significant and colorful figure in russian politics. el

with his frantic rhetoric, addressed the radical communist voter for support; the ardent populist kuzbasovetsof workers, primarily miners, dissatisfied with rising prices. and mangildy tuleyev, vadim bakatin, the former minister of internal affairs, known as reformists of the security forces, sought to attract the liberal intelligentsia. the surprise that captured the imagination of voters for a long time was the master of political outrage vladimir zhirinovsky, the leader of the first the liberal democratic party officially registered in the ussr. the choice offered to the russians seemed to give gorbachev, as well as all supporters of the old regime, a chance to prevent yeltsin from being elected in the first round. the second round could have been postponed until the fall, or not held at all, because even then a plan to transfer the country to a state of emergency was maturing in some power offices. all allied media worked not so much in favor of the main favorite of the kremlin, nikolai ryshkov, but against yeltsin, using all kinds of compromising evidence and outright intimidation of cha