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A nice photo story on how Russia looked during the first ten years after USSR collapsed.

These photos show how all of Russia experienced the 1990s.

Thousands of Russian people carry the new Russian flag in August, 1991.

The city market in Petropavlovsk, Russia.

A Russian tank leaves its post in front of Russian Government Building which is was guarding.

Cossack on a horse buys a bottle of vodka, March, 1994.

WW2 veterans in front of Bolshoi Theater, 1994.

Russian soldiers training in 1994. A few months before the First Chechen War.

Russian soldier plays on a piano in Grozny, Chechnya central park. 1995.

Soldiers wearing armored vests patrol a bridge in Moscow, 1995.

British Supermodel Naomi Campbell visits the Red Square, 1995.

Bill and Hillary Clinton during their visit to Moscow Coca Cola factory in 1995.

Legendary Soviet ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaia in Moscow, celebrating her 70 year anniversary. 1995

A Russian soldier with two young boys near Grozny, Chechnya, 1996.

Boris Yeltsin dances with members of a concert, June, 1996.

Two orphans get a dinner at a Church, 250 km from Moscow, 1996.

Nuns purchasing some apples at a market - August 1996

Arnold Shwarzenegger during "Planet Hollywood" opening in Moscow. 1996.

Michael Jackson holds a present he received from Moscow mayor Luzhkov.

Donald Trump during his visit to Moscow, November 5th, 1996.

Kids playing on missiles during an open air exhibition in St. Petersburg, January 1997.

A woman selling meat at a market feeds a stray dog.

WW2 veteran during a Victory Day march in 1997.

A young boy at a children's military camp in Russia. 1997

Striking coal miners in May, 1998. They blocked the railroads and demanded a salary increase.

An elderly man selling cucumbers on the side of a highway.  1998

A mother and son at a Moscow market staring at empty shelves.

Elderly women selling cheap illegal vodka in downtown Moscow, trying to earn some extra money. 1998

Newlyweds give money to beggars after leaving a church.

A young girl walks her reindeers at -30 degrees, 2000 km North of Moscow. 1998.

People standing in long lines to buy milk. 1998.

Kids playing in front of a gate with bullet holes in Grozny, Chechnya.

A Russian soldier yawns before a ceremony of flower laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.

Tourists enter through the gates to see St. Basil's Cathedral.

Police arresting a man in Moscow. 1999.

May, 1999

December 31, 1999. Boris Yeltsin suddenly resigns. He names little known Vladimir Putin as his successor.