1996: "Vote or lose!"

What is wrong with the last “competitive” elections in Russia?

Exactly 27 years ago, in 1996, elections were held in Russia that determined our future. Two rounds of votes, new political technological moves, star concerts to attract young people to sites.

How did the 1996 elections go, why did they determine the country's political contour even then, 4 years before the coming to power of Vladimir Putin and how did the opinion appeared that Yeltsin won the elections? This is a format in which we are most important and relevant as possible and accessiblely as possible.