ABSTRACT
The sixth Congress marked a turning point in Boris Yeltsin’s relations with parliament. Yeltsin accepted a Congress proposal to replace the ministry of industry with five new institutions: a state committee for industrial policy and state committees for the defence, metallurgy, machinery and energy industries. The draft Yeltsin constitution was published on 30 April and on 20 May Yeltsin signed a decree convening a constitutional assembly. Yeltsin invited delegates to discuss the presidential and Supreme Soviet draft constitutions. Yeltsin replaced Yury Petrov as head of the presidential administration with Sergei Filatov, Ruslan Khasbulatov’s deputy in parliament. Yeltsin proposed various deals to parliament which would have transferred some of his prerogatives to it, if it agreed to the referendum. Aleksei Kazannik, the procurator general, after he had resigned, criticised the Yeltsin administration for not having negotiated seriously with the Supreme Soviet leaders.
