The first president of russia elected directly by the people in 1991 in relatively free elections was.

boris yeltsin

leonid kravchuk

vladimir putin

mikhail gorbachev

they thoght they were going to nuke each other

world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

explanation:

england is crowded cold and polluted while north america was like the opposite