Boris Yeltsin(1931-2007)

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 - 23 April 2007) was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism and Russian nationalism.

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Tagesschau

7.3

TV Series

Self
Self - Russian President

Dokument utifrån

8.2

TV Series

Self

Vremya

3.5

TV Series

Self
Self - Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR

Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya.

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Self

2006

Trivia
President of Russian SFSR/Russia from 10 July 1991 to 31 December 1999.

Quotes
[from his 1994 memoir "The Struggle for Russia"] The debilitating bouts of depression, the grave second thoughts, the insomnia and headaches in the middle of the night, the tears and despair . . . the hurt from people close to me who did not support me at the last minute, who didn't hold up, who deceived me - I have had to bear all of this.