June 12 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia
August 19-21 Abortive Communist coup
October 28 Yeltsin's big reform speech
November 6-8 Reform government appointed
December 8 Belovezhsky agreement between Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine on the abolition of the USSR and the foundation of the CIS
December 21 The CIS broadened to 11 countries at meeting in Alma-Ata
December 25 Mikhail S. Gorbachev resigns as president of the USSR
January 2 The big price liberalization
February 27 Shadow program with the IMF signed
April 3 Gennady Burbulis ousted as first deputy prime minister
April 6 Sixth Congress of People's Deputies convened
May-June Vladimir Lopukhin sacked as minister of fuel and energy; three industrialists appointed deputy prime ministers: Viktor Chernomyrdin, Vladimir Shumeiko, and Georgy Khizha
June 11 Supreme Soviet adopts Privatization Program for 1992
July 1 Formal separation of the Russian ruble from other noncash rubles
July Russia and the IMF sign a standby agreement
July 17 Viktor Gerashchenko appointed acting chairman of the Central Bank of Russia
August 19 Yeltsin announces voucher privatization
December 12 Yegor Gaidar ousted as acting prime minister by the Seventh Congress of People's Deputies
December 14 Chernomyrdin appointed prime minister
March 28 Congress of People's Deputies fails to impeach Yeltsin
April 16 Oleg Lobov appointed first deputy prime minister and minister of the economy
April 20 Technical credits to other former Soviet republics abolished
April 25 Referendum
May Agreement with the IMF on a Systemic Transformation Facility
July 24 Demonetization of Soviet ruble banknotes
September 7 Agreement on the formation of a ruble zone of a new type
September 18 Gaidar replaces Lobov as first deputy prime minister and Minister of the Economy
September 21 Yeltsin dissolves Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet
September 25 Subsidized credits abolished
October 3-4 Armed uprising in Moscow; storming of the White House
December 12 Parliamentary elections and referendum on the new constitution
January 5 Agreement on monetary union with Belarus signed
January 16 Gaidar resigns as first deputy prime minister and minister of the economy
January 20 Boris Fedorov resigns as deputy prime minister and minister of finance
April Renewed agreement with the IMF on Systemic Transformation Facility
October 11 "Black Tuesday"~a one-day collapse of the exchange rate of the ruble
From Anders Aslund, How Russia Became a Market Economy, pp.319-320.