Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. During the late 1980s, Yeltsin had been a member of the Politburo, and in late 1987 tendered a letter of resignation in protest. No one had resigned from the Politburo before...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth1 February 1931
CityButka, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
It's an enormous issue for us, for your businessmen, for us domestically and internationally. We worked long and hard on that tax code and, in the end, we succeeded in getting it through,
It is not right for us to think about successors. Kings have successors but we don't. It is the people that choose.
I think these qualities will be decisive during presidential elections in 2000, ... decent, honest and thorough.
It is a significant sum for those who invest in Russia.
is doing very little to get Russia out of the present crisis.
I said before the elections and repeat now -- don't rush to change the portraits. The country has a president and an active president at that.
We must tell the truth -- the (czar's) massacre has become one of the most shameful pages of our history, ... By burying the innocent victims we want to expiate the sins of our ancestors.
Our calls, continual proposal (on a peaceful solution to Kosovo) obviously are not getting through
I swear, in exercising my authorities as president of the Russian Federation, to respect and uphold the rights and freedoms of the individual and the citizen.
That doesn't mean that I abandon my constitutional powers to appoint ministers and government members. No, I don't,
My soul aches when I think about hungry soldiers, unpaid officers and their families, who have been suffering for years without a home of their own,
We will meet and discuss the question of how to get out of the situation without getting into a big war,
were to return to dust, the period of his rule will remain the brightest and most romantic in Russia's 20th-century history -- simply because Russia had not experienced such high expectations for a very long time.
You have to be more careful in a world filled with all types of weapons, some of which are in the hands of terrorists. All of this is very dangerous. You can't threaten like that, that you'll send in planes and bombs -- no!