Editing History of Russia (section)

===Priority over Soviet Union laws and negotiations on a new Treaty===
{{Main|Parade of sovereignties|War of Laws|New Union Treaty}}

The following month, Yeltsin secured legislation [[Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|giving Russian laws priority over Soviet laws]]. Article 5 of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic establishes the full authority of the RSFSR, with the exception of those which it voluntarily transfers to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as well as the supremacy of the Constitution of the RSFSR and the laws of the RSFSR over the entire territory of the RSFSR. Acts of the Union of SSR which conflict with the sovereign rights of the RSFSR shall be suspended by the Republic on its territory. And also Yeltsin withholding two-thirds of the budget.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}} In the [[1991 Russian presidential election|first Russian presidential election]] in 1991 Yeltsin became president of the Russian SFSR. At last Gorbachev [[New Union Treaty|attempted to restructure]] the Soviet Union into a less centralized state. However, on 19 August 1991, a [[1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt|coup against Gorbachev]] was attempted. The coup faced wide popular opposition and collapsed in three days, but disintegration of the Union became imminent. The Russian government took over most of the Soviet Union government institutions on its territory. Because of the dominant position of Russians in the Soviet Union, most gave little thought to any distinction between Russia and the [[Soviet Union]] before the late 1980s. In the Soviet Union, only Russian SFSR lacked its own republic-level Communist Party branch, [[trade union]] councils, [[Academy of Sciences]], and the like.<ref>{{cite web|quote=Because of the Russians' dominance in the affairs of the union, the RSFSR failed to develop some of the institutions of governance and administration that were typical of public life in the other republics: a republic-level communist party, a Russian academy of sciences, and Russian branches of trade unions, for example.|work=Country Studies|title=Government|url=http://countrystudies.us/russia/68.htm|access-date=22 July 2007|archive-date=20 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520122150/http://countrystudies.us/russia/68.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>