Following the escalation of 1993 Russian constitutional crisis the governors had to choose whether to support the parliament or the president.

Among them were governors of Amur and Bryansk Oblasts Aleksandr Surat and Yury Lodkin,[5] both serving only six months.

Major General Ruslan Aushev, formerly head of provisional administration of Ingushetia, ran unopposed with the support of several Ingush nationalist organisations.

The Congress of the Ingush People called for the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ingushetia,[9] and Nijsxo would go on to oppose the signing of the Treaty of Federation after Aushev took office.

[9] Presidential election in the Republic of Kalmykia was held on Sunday, 11 April 1993, 17 months after the previous voting of 1991, which did not reveal the winner.