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
The people have already rid themselves of the fear they had several years ago. I call on my compatriots to begin constructive work in order to revive and renew Russia in the name of national unity.
I have a very low estimate of your work in this direction. I am not satisfied and I have to draw the necessary conclusions,
There will be no devaluation -- that's firm and definite, ... I'm not simply fantasizing. Everything has been calculated. Every day, work is done to control the situation in this area.
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
The past two years in Russia's life have been full of stormy political events, great laborious work on reforming the economy, ... Soon there were disappointments, too, and unfulfilled hopes. But we've never lost the conviction in the necessity of the transformations we're carrying out.
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.