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George H.W. Bush, left, shares a toast with Russian President Boris Yeltsin after they signed the START II nuclear arms treaty in Moscow on Jan. 3, 1993. Associated Press file WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's consideration of severe cuts in...
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The city has become a testing ground for your political experiments." Feitlikher later faced a criminal investigation on fraud charges and emigrated to Israel. In 1999 Volodin joined the Otechestvo (Fatherland) party created to take on President Boris...
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Transneft preferred shares, equivalent to 25 percent of charter capital, are held by private investors and Transneft represents one of the few Russian national interests that Putin’s presidential predecessor Boris Yeltsin didn’t put up for sale in the...
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Despite the setbacks, the bluesy, arena-rock band’s popularity soared thanks to a huge following online as well as its tours with a wide variety of acts from Matchbox 20 and Alanis Morrissette to local favorites Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin...
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In the final days of 1991, as the Soviet flag was lowered one last time from the Kremlin, the Russian people looked beaten, tired and disappointed. This was a revolution of an exhausted people, who had had enough of changing the world. The energetic...
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The vodka will be served at official events involving President Dmitry Medvedev and his predecessor and likely successor, Putin. It was also being offered for sale over the internet at 792 rubles ($26) for a bottle, the report said. But while it may...
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China has taken a big step toward fascism. We all fall in the same place we have fallen in the past. Now that Xi Jinping is visiting the United States as the successor to the throne, people are reprojecting the ardent hopes they had for Hu onto Xi. Will...
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Many fought valiantly, even gave their lives to topple the Soviet regime. But this was a revolution of an exhausted people, who had had enough of changing the world. For years, their modest expectations proved, if anything, too ambitious. The energetic...
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“I think Russia has its own way – neither the USSR [model] nor Yeltsin-era disorder,” Bout said in a reference to the turbulent decade of Boris Yeltsin’s rule that followed the demise of Soviet Union in 1991. “If only we could bring back the brains...
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4 percent VTsIOM (February 4-5): 5 percent FOM (February 2): 4 percent Vladimir Putin Comeback hopeful Age: 59 Career path: A KGB low-ranker in the 1980s and a City Hall official in St. Petersburg in the 1990s, Putin catapulted to the ranks of the...
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The dollar-denominated RTS (RTSI$) stock index lost more than 13 percent of its value and the ruble had its longest losing streak since January 2009 in the 10 days after the Dec. 4 vote. The gauge has gained 19 percent this year. Russia’s only...
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In a country as starved of glamour as its stores were of fresh bread, 32-year-old Nemtsov was an instant idol, Russia’s most popular politician. It was only a matter of time until he was pulled into even higher circles as Boris Yeltsin’s deputy prime...
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I don’t mean he was caught wearing a tank-top, though I wouldn’t have put that past him, I mean he actually stood on top of a tank. He did this to face down a coup led by generals, who were hardline communists. The reason I mention it is that when the...
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Khodorkovsky is still in jail. The rigged sales under Boris Yeltsin are still immensely controversial as they made a tiny group of savvy businessmen - known as oligarchs - fabulous fortunes while ordinary Russians were thrown into poverty. "We need to...
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He would surely demand guarantees of immunity for himself and his elite as a condition of his voluntary exit, as, in effect, Yeltsin did when he handed power to Putin 12 years ago (after the death of Boris Yeltsin, these warranties are legally...
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This, in his view, would help close the debates about what he himself described as “unfair privatization.” The sell-off of the former Soviet state property, especially the oil and gas industry, effectuated during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, was...
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Putin called the 1990s privatization "a simple divvying up of the state pie", and said it was necessary to "turn the page," reports
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The seeds for this Sino-Russian declaration were in fact laid in 1996 when both sides declared that they opposed the global imposition of single-state hegemony. Both Jiang Zemin and Boris Yeltsin stated that all nation-states should be treated equally,...
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Putin’s most valuable asset right now may be the long memory of the Russian people. Russia’s last major political stand-off—in October 1993, between former President Boris Yeltsin and the reactionary, Soviet-dominated legislature—ended in bloodshed. ...
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When the prosecutor general under President Boris Yeltsin, Yuri Skuratov, was investigating Boris Berezovsky and other Kremlin insiders for corruption in 1999, the oligarch’s television channel aired a video of a man resembling him in bed with...
About Boris Yeltsin
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин?·i; Russian pronunciation: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn]) (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Full Article
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) founding declaration during a meeting in Almaty in this December 21, 1991 file photograph. The Soviet Union, we had always thought, was surely too big to fail. We had all seen the bare shelves in the shops.
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev attend a news conference after the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) founding meeting in Almaty in this December 21, 1991 file photograph. The Soviet Union, we had always thought, was surely too...
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L), shown in picture dated 19 August 1991 in Moscow, stands on top of an armoured vehicle parked in front of the Russian Federation building as supporters hold a Russian federation flag. Yeltsin addressed a crowd of supporters calling for a general...
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (R) speaks with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev during Gorbachev's address to the Extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Soviet of Russian Federation in Moscow in this August 23, 1991 file photo. Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the failed 1991...
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (R) approaches to shake hands with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev during Gorbachev's address to the Extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Soviet of Russian Federation in Moscow in this August 23, 1991 file photo. Russia is marking the 20th anniversary...
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A triumphant Russian President Boris Yeltsin and a tank driver hold hands as they wave to a crowd of supporters from the balcony of the Russian parliament in this August 22 1991 file photo. Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the failed 1991 coup by hardline communists that...
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin waves from the balcony of the Russian Parliament to a crowd of demonstrators protesting against the overthrow of Soviet President Gorbachev in Moscow in this August 20, 1991 file photo.
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (C) delivers a speech while standing atop an armoured vehicle outside the government house in this August, 19, 1991 file photo. Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the failed 1991 coup by hardline communists that hastened the end of the Soviet Union.
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President Boris Yeltsin waves to a large crowd in Moscow in this August 20, 1991 file photo. Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the failed 1991 coup by hardline communists that hastened the end of the Soviet Union.
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The leader of the Soviet-era Russian republic Boris Yeltsin (2nd R) flanked by the chief of his guard Alexander Korzhakov (C) takes part in a funeral procession for the victims of the coup in Moscow on August 24, 1991, after the coup attemp failed. Russia marks on August 19-22, 2011,...
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The leader of the Soviet-era Russian republic Boris Yeltsin (C), flanked by his chief of guard Alexander Korzhakov (L) holding a bulletproof shield, makes a speech during a funeral procession of the victims of the coup in Moscow on August 24, 1991, after the coup attemp failed. Russia...
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River ships moor in front the Russian White House in Moscow on August 21, 1991, to support Boris Yeltsin. Russia marks on August 19-22, 2011, the 20th anniversary of the abortive 1991 coup against then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Tanks rolled through Moscow towards the Russian...
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) whispers to Soviet President Mikahil Gorbachev during a session of the People's Congress in Moscow, 03 September 1991. Earlier in the session Yeltsin blamed Gorbachev for the failed coup, saying Gorbachev's 'indecisiveness' led to the coup.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife Svetlana, right, and Naina Yeltsin, widow of Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin, walk to attend a charity event in the Kremlin Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.
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Russia's First Lady Svetlana Medvedeva (R) and Naina Yeltsina, widow of Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation, walk to attend a charity concert in Moscow's Kremlin December 17, 2011. The concert is part of the "White Rose" fund which supports women suffering from...
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (2nd R) flashes the 'Thumbs-up' sign after signing the agreement which founded a Commonwealth of Independant States in Alma Ata, 21 December 1991. Standing next to him are Ukrainian President Kravchuk (L), Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev (2nd L) and...
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) and Belarus's Supreme Soviet Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich (R) sign a document 08 December 1991 stating that 'the Soviet Union as a geopolitical reality [and] a subject of international law has ceased to exist.' The document simultaneously announces...
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (R) meets with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the presidential residence Gorky-9 outside Moscow, 14 November 1999, in preparation for the upcoming OSCE summit in Istanbul.
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the presidential residence Gorky-9 outside Moscow, 14 November 1999, to prepare for the upcoming OSCE summit in Istanbul.
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin looks up at the 58 meter monument-belfry during a wreath-laying ceremony at the place of World War II's biggest tank battle at Prohorovka in the Belgorod district 05 April, 1996. This is the second day of Yeltsin's first pre-election trip in view of 16...
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