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What was Nikolai Ryzhkov's main opponent in the 1991 presidential election?

  • Boris Yeltsin

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  • Lev Chernyi

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Boris Yeltsin was Nikolai Ryzhkov's main opponent in the 1991 presidential election. Yeltsin was a reformer who promised to end the Communist Party's monopoly on power, while Ryzhkov was a conservative who promised to maintain the status quo. Yeltsin won the election by a landslide, and he went on to become the first president of Russia.
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