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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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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... View Photo »
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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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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (C) looks back as he walks to attend 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 big to fail. ... View Photo »
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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...
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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