[medo-bear]

Any seizure of power by an individual or a small number of people that is done in a manner not provided for by the constitution is, by definition, a coup/putsch. The constitutional referrendum happened after the Yeltsin coup, in December. For the said referrendum there is even doubt if it achieved 50%+ turnout, let a lone if it was fair and propper (referendums and elections that are held after an illegal power grab are always just theatre), so you should also check the meaning of the word 'popular'.

> And who really cared about Clinton? Next year Eltsin started 1st Chechen war without asking anyone's permission.

On 11.09.2001 an ex employee of the US government crashed a bunch of planes accross the US without (probably) asking anyone's permission.

> Eltsin was mostly ok, not worse than any other former communist leader.

Im pretty sure it is not controversial to say that most Russians view Yeltsin as a huge failure and a disgrace

[thodin]

Please check our history - we had a referendum before December (in April), when majority voted exactly as Eltsin asked (yes, yes, no, yes - I still remember that song on radio :) And do you think US asked Russians not to come for referendum? And at the same time do you think that US asked Russians to vote for LDPR which was an opposition party? How LDPR's victory could be a theater?

The same people who voted for opposition party also voted for the new Constitution. And that party was not a communist party. Some people say that Zhirinovsky was a FSB's project. In this case your ideas that US had anything to do with 12.1993 elections looks even more weird! Or stupid.

Yeltsin's support was very different in 1991 and in 1999. The problem was that Russia in 90s was still controlled by former communists/komsomol members, who were cynical, corrupt, brutal and terribly educated.

They didn't care about US and always tried to push pro-Russian ideas, check what Eltsin told to Clinton about Ukraine.. US had very limited involvement in internal politics, they just "hoped" that Russian will eventually become a normal country.

But when another stupid former communist Berezovsky decided to put his Puppet Putin into Kremlin - he failed miserably. KSB agent cannot do anything positive - his training is always about ruining and destroying, bringing lies and hate, stealing and bribing.

[medo-bear]

December referendum

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_...

In case you are just trying to apply,

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card

> yes, yes, no, yes - I still remember that song on radio :

https://youtu.be/4FJDwXxfAVE

[thodin]

April referendum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_government_refere...

Why do I need to apply for green card? What for? Are you ok there?

Here is the famous "yes, yes, no, yes" song by Pugacheva with funny reference to April's referendum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C1F3A7bVu0

The only person from US very active in Russia during 1993 was not Clinton. It was Soros. Many thanks to this guy for paying for my broadband Internet access :) But his political influence was close to 0.

[medo-bear]

So the April referendum was not about changing the constitution :)

[thodin]

It was about Eltsin's support and parliament reelection.

And please stop describing Russians as US puppets. It's your weird ideas only.

[medo-bear]

So the April referendum was not about changing the constitution :)