title: Second inauguration of Boris Yeltsin
text: # Second inauguration of Boris Yeltsin
  
  * This article is part of a series aboutBoris Yeltsin
  
  Early life
  
  Presidency
  
  Yeltsinism
  
  CPSU membership
  
  26th
  
  27th Politburo
  
  26th
  
  27th Central Committee
  
  28th Congress
  
  Elections
  
  1991
  
  campaign
  
  1996
  
  campaign (Vote or lose)
  
  Loans for shares
  
  Semibankirschina
  
  Soskovets campaign strategy
  
  Xerox affair
  
  First term
  
  1st inauguration
  
  Gaidar Cabinet
  
  August Coup
  
  1st Chernomyrdin Cabinet
  
  Constitutional conference
  
  1993 crisis
  
  1st Chechen War
  
  International trips ("Circling over Shannon" diplomatic incident)
  
  Second term
  
  2nd inauguration
  
  Ruble crisis
  
  2nd Chechen War
  
  Resignation
  
  International trips
  
  Post-Presidency
  
  Presidential Center
  
  Presidential Library
  
  Illness
  
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  The second inauguration of Boris Yeltsin as the president of Russia took place on Friday, August 9, 1996. The ceremony was held at the State Kremlin Palace and lasted about thirty minutes.
  
  It was originally planned to hold a ceremony at the Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin, but in order to save money this idea was abandoned.
  
  ## Background
  
  Boris Yeltsin won the election in 1996 and re-entered the office of the president of Russia a month later.
  
  ## Ceremony
  
  First, in the inauguration of the Hall have been brought standard of the president of Russia, flag of Russia, Russian Constitution and sign of the president of Russia.
  
  Next on stage were invited the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia Vladimir Tumanov, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, Chairman of the Federation Council Yegor Stroyev, Chairman of the State Duma Gennady Seleznyov, Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Nikolay Ryabov and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II.
  
  After the twelfth stroke Kremlin chimes, President Boris Yeltsin entered the hall.
  
  The first speech was made by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia Nikolai Ryabov, in his speech he congratulated Boris Yeltsin, announced that Yeltsin was popularly re-elected President of Russia for a second term and he declared that the elections were fair and democratic. At the end of the speech Ryabov gave Yeltsin a certificate of the Russian President.
  
  Then, a speech made by the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Vladimir Tumanov, who also congratulated Yeltsin announced electoral integrity and urged the President took the oath.
  
  After Boris Yeltsin took the oath, he sounded Anthem of Russia, and a copy of the standard of the president of Russia was raised over the Kremlin Senate.
  
  Thereafter, Chairman of the Federation Council Yegor Stroyev, put on the symbol of Presidential power on Boris Yeltsin.
  
  Then, with a made a congratulatory speech, Patriarch Alexy II.
  
  At the end of the ceremony it was made of thirty artillery salute volleys.
  
  