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Apr 23, 2007 · Boris Yeltsin will be indelibly linked to the creation of democracy in Russia. By facing down the tanks outside the Russian Parliament, he showed that popular opinion could conquer authoritarianism. Such personal courage and high principle earned him national acclaim and international attention. And it broke the stranglehold of Communism, the ...
Boris Yeltsin circling over Shannon diplomatic incident. On 30 September 1994, Boris Yeltsin, then President of the Russian Federation, was scheduled for an official state visit to Ireland but failed to get off his plane when it landed at Shannon Airport. The incident embarrassed the Irish government, in particular Taoiseach Albert Reynolds ...
Mar 16, 2018 · Washington, D.C., March 16, 2018 – Declassified documents from U.S. and Russian archives show that U.S. officials led Russian President Boris Yeltsin to believe in 1993 that the Partnership for Peace was the alternative to NATO expansion, rather than a precursor to it, while simultaneously planning for expansion after Yeltsin’s re-election bid in 1996 and telling the Russians repeatedly ...
Once in control of independent russia, yeltsin and his reform team made the bold decision to launch their radical program to transform the collapsing socialist command economy into a market economy. The sheer scale and complexity of the changes they undertook are stunning: the conversion of a huge economy based on comprehensive state ownership ...
YELTSIN, BORIS (b. 1931) Soviet politician, first president of Russia (1991–1999). Born in the village of Butka some 250 miles east of Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), the young Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was caught up in Joseph Stalin 's collectivization struggle, and many of the Yeltsin family, as kulaks (rich peasants), were shipped to exile in ...
Dec 17, 2019 · Mr Yumashev was one of Boris Yeltsin's most trusted aides - he went on to marry Mr Yeltsin's daughter, Tatyana. As Mr Yeltsin's chief of staff, in 1997 he gave Mr Putin his first job in the Kremlin.
Dec 20, 2020 · Tổng thống Boris Yeltsin đã phá vỡ Liên Xô và đem nền dân chủ khiếm khuyết tới cho nước Nga vào năm 1991.
