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
is doing very little to get Russia out of the present crisis.
Everything that is aimed at countries present here, ... all of those weapons are going to have their warheads removed.
you wait for flowers and gifts from us on this day. Of course you have deserved them, deserved them in every way. In the way that the Olympic gold of our women in Nagano was the best present to Russian men.
That is why...I have to present acting ministers to the president and I am already doing so.
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.
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,