Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Russia...
136 KB (14,925 words) - 18:01, 11 November 2024
The presidency of Boris Yeltsin began with his first inauguration on 10 July 1991, and ended on 31 December 1999 when he announced his resignation. A...
26 KB (3,614 words) - 01:30, 5 February 2024
Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, died of cardiac arrest on 23 April 2007, twelve days after being admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital...
16 KB (1,270 words) - 21:48, 26 September 2024
victory for the incumbent Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent politician. Yeltsin defeated the Communist Party of the Russian Federation...
106 KB (6,125 words) - 16:31, 16 September 2024
security forces and government, and he became the successor to President Boris Yeltsin. After serving as the head of the Federal Security Service of the Russian...
26 KB (3,038 words) - 03:49, 3 November 2024
a referendum held in March that year. The result was a victory for Boris Yeltsin, who received 58.6% of the vote. In the election of the Supreme Soviet...
47 KB (4,215 words) - 23:59, 14 November 2024
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, also known simply as the Yeltsin Center, is a social, cultural and educational center, which opened in Yekaterinburg...
11 KB (904 words) - 00:18, 7 June 2024
the Politburo and brought Boris Yeltsin into the Central Committee Secretariat. On 23 December 1985, Gorbachev appointed Yeltsin First Secretary of the Moscow...
229 KB (23,087 words) - 05:11, 15 November 2024
the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). In 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the RSFSR, becoming the first non-Communist...
49 KB (4,989 words) - 05:43, 9 November 2024
Russia from 1991 to 1993. He was proclaimed acting president following Boris Yeltsin's impeachment during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, in which...
22 KB (2,019 words) - 02:59, 14 November 2024
Russian political jokes (section Boris Yeltsin)
That's Yeltsin!" "Boris Nikolayevich," says the squad leader, "duck down please." And the soldiers begin shooting. A stern President Yeltsin asks Vice...
61 KB (8,246 words) - 04:06, 11 November 2024
In 1996, he moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB)...
475 KB (39,201 words) - 22:18, 13 November 2024
starring Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. In the film, Boris Yeltsin secretly hires three American consultants during his 1996 reelection...
5 KB (326 words) - 18:34, 11 September 2024
into the Russian post-Soviet economy. In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997)...
94 KB (8,909 words) - 23:15, 9 November 2024
Boris Yeltsin, who had been both an ally and critic of Gorbachev. The GKChP was poorly organized and met with effective resistance by both Yeltsin and...
169 KB (16,855 words) - 04:45, 14 November 2024
Russian oligarchs (section Yeltsin era, 1991–1999)
Oligarchs became increasingly influential in Russian politics during Boris Yeltsin's presidency (1991–1999); they helped finance his re-election in 1996...
57 KB (5,382 words) - 21:34, 13 September 2024
Alexander Korzhakov (section The Yeltsin family)
born 31 January 1950) is a Russian former KGB general who served as Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard, confidant, and adviser for eleven years. He was the head...
15 KB (1,878 words) - 17:38, 26 October 2024
Inauguration of Boris Yeltsin may refer to: First inauguration of Boris Yeltsin, 1991 Second inauguration of Boris Yeltsin, 1996 This disambiguation page...
165 bytes (53 words) - 14:02, 24 November 2023
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...
10 KB (1,133 words) - 02:01, 11 November 2024
(AVVA), a venture fund he formed in 1993 with Alexander Voloshin (Boris Yeltsin's future Chief of Staff) and AvtoVAZ Chairman Vladimir Kadannikov. Berezovsky...
128 KB (12,788 words) - 03:20, 12 November 2024
Roman Abramovich (section Boris Yeltsin)
headed the Moscow affiliate of the Swiss firm, Runicom. In August 1995, Boris Yeltsin decreed the creation of Sibneft, of which Abramovich and Berezovsky...
123 KB (11,433 words) - 13:31, 26 October 2024
Naina Yeltsina (redirect from Naina Yeltsin)
born 14 March 1932) is the widow of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. Naina Yeltsina was born in the Orenburg Oblast in 1932. After graduating...
4 KB (258 words) - 18:58, 28 October 2024
known in English as Boris Yeltsin, followed by accepted hybrid forms in various languages. English speakers will pronounce "Boris" differently from the...
11 KB (873 words) - 20:25, 20 June 2024
Electoral history of Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia. 1st Moscow constituency: Boris Yeltsin — 91.53% Boris Yeltsin — 535 votes (53.9%) Aleksandr...
7 KB (144 words) - 14:55, 7 July 2024
presidential election. He did not win, but placed third behind incumbent Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, with roughly 14% of...
30 KB (2,964 words) - 22:16, 7 November 2024
Gazprom's political influence increased markedly after Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed the company's chairman Chernomyrdin as his Prime Minister...
32 KB (3,138 words) - 13:30, 15 November 2024
living people.[citation needed] In 1990, he opposed the election of Boris Yeltsin to the chairmanship of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, describing him...
11 KB (762 words) - 22:55, 7 November 2024
Acting Prime Minister under President Boris Yeltsin in 1992 from 15 June until 14 December, when the anti-Yeltsin Russian Congress of People's Deputies...
38 KB (3,429 words) - 21:37, 23 October 2024
The Boris Yeltsin presidential campaign, 1996 was the reelection campaign of Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the 1996 election. Yeltsin was ultimately...
109 KB (12,784 words) - 23:14, 30 September 2024
one term out of office. The only presidents to be term-limited are Boris Yeltsin in 2000 and Vladimir Putin in 2008 and again in 2024. Since becoming...
17 KB (2,229 words) - 17:57, 10 September 2024