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	Boris Yeltsin
		Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (born February 1, 1931) President of Russia 1991-1999, was the first President of the Russian Federation.
		Yeltsin was also "Mayor" of Moscow (First Secretary of the CPSU Moscow City Committee) from December 24 1985 to 1987, when he was sacked for criticizing Gorbachev and the pace of reform.
		Yeltsin continued as President of Russia until December 31, 1999, but the events of 1991 proved to be something of a high-water mark for him historically and personally.
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	Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boris Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in Butka village, Talitsa district, Sverdlovsk region.
		Yeltsin studied at Pushkin High School in Berezniki, Perm region and the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk, majoring in construction, and graduated in 1955.
		A week later, on December 8, Boris Yeltsin met with Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk and the leader of Belarus, Stanislau Shushkevich, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha residence, where the three presidents announced the dissolution of the USSR and that they would establish a voluntary Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boris_Nikolaevich_Yeltsin (1490 words)

	Wikinfo \| Boris Yeltsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин), (born February 1, 1931) President of Russia 1991-1999, was the first President of the Russian Federation.
		Yeltsin was hailed around the world as a hero for saving the Soviet Union from the resumption of tyranny and the world from the renewal of the Cold War.
		Yeltsin resigned on December 31 1999, naming Vladimir Putin as Acting President until new elections were held on 26 March 2000.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Yeltsin (574 words)

	Encyclopedia: Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin
		Boris Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in Butka village, Talitsky district, Sverdlovsk region on February 1, 1931.
		Appointed to the Politburo by Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin was also "Mayor" of Moscow (First Secretary of the CPSU Moscow City Committee) from December 24, 1985 to 1987, when he was sacked from both positions after criticizing Gorbachev and the pace of reform.
		Yeltsin was not exiled or imprisoned as once would have been the consequence, but demoted to the position of First Deputy Commissioner for the State Committee for Constuction.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Boris-Nikolaevich-Yeltsin (1164 words)

	Boris Yeltsin
		Yeltsin sharply criticized the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU for slow pace of reforms at the October, 1987, plenary meeting of the Central Committee.
		Boris Yeltsin stressed the importance of "developing the market and bringing down the social cost of this process" in his annual state of the nation address to the parliament on February 23.
		Yeltsin's new security czar, Alexander Lebed, who had campaigned for president on an anti-crime and anti-corruption platform before accepting his position in the government, told the journalists he was not interested in "the murky case".
	www.cs.indiana.edu /~dmiguse/Russian/bybio.html (5243 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Putin faces whiff of corruption
		One of the burdens which Vladimir Putin inherits from Boris Yeltsin, as he begins his period as acting president, is the whiff of corruption which surrounded the presidential administration in its final years.
		One of Boris Yeltsin's daughters, Tatyana Dyachenko, played a prominent role in Kremlin affairs - some say she was the dominant influence on her father.
		There is also bound to be much speculation about the future influence of business magnate Boris Berezovsky, said to have been a close confidant of Tatyana Dyachenko and to have had an unhealthy influence on the president through her.
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	Encyclopedia: Boris Yeltsin
		The Congress of Soviets was the supreme governing body of the RSFSR and the USSR in two periods, from 1917 to 1936 and from 1989 to 1991.
		Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov, (1947â€”), is a politician who has worked with Boris Yeltsin from 1987 and became speaker of the Russian parliament after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
		Boris Yeltsin was President of the Russian Federation at the time of the crisis.
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	Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin Biography / Biography of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin Biography Biography
		Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (born 1931), who became president of Russia in 1991, was one of the most complex and enigmatic political leaders of his time.
		Yeltsin was perceived at varying times as a folk hero, as a symbol of Russia's struggle to establish a democracy, and as a dictatorial figure.
		Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin was born into a Russian working-class family on February 1, 1931, in the small Siberian village of Butko.
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	Irony marks Yeltsin's fall from grace: 1/2/00
		But the ensuing years showed that Yeltsin's victory was only transitory, and that his influence may already have peaked by the time the Soviet Union dissolved and Gorbachev resigned as head of a country that no longer existed.
		Yeltsin's recent military drive to recapture the Chechnyan capital of Grozny disappointed Russian liberals, but it was popular with many of their countrymen who felt humiliated by the collapse of Russian power at home and of Russian influence abroad.
		Yeltsin's tenure ends with most Russians still facing economic deprivation and the core of the country's economy controlled by a handful of business oligarchs who shake down competitors, flout the rule of law and siphon much of their wealth abroad.
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	CBS News \| Yeltsin Obit: \| October 12, 2005 17:30:06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Yeltsin joined the Communist Party in 1961, amid the Soviet Union's tumultuous shift from Stalinism to Nikita Khruschev's more 'enlightened' totalitarian rule.
		However, it was not long before Yeltsin became a vocal critic of the slow pace of Gorbachev's changes.
		Many Kremlin-watchers even speculated that Yeltsin's 1998 illness, which his doctors called a 'respiratory infection,' was exaggerated as part of a political ruse.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/03/17/world/main5230.shtml (708 words)

	Yeltsin Family - Johnson's Russia List 12-12-02
		What is more, Rostovskii writes that Yeltsin's requests are met in most cases, which means that "a great number of top officials" are obliged to the former president for keeping their posts.
		A recent example was Yeltsin's indirect criticism of Putin this past June for cooling on the idea of a Russia-Belarus union, which led to a rare public rebuke by Putin of his predecessor.
		Another major change for the Yeltsin clan, of course, is the eclipse of the man who was once perhaps its most powerful member, Boris Berezovskii, who continues to attack Putin from self-imposed exile in Britain.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6597-11.cfm (1142 words)

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		While Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Nursultan Nazarbayev (president of Kazakhstan) were going to sign the Union Treaty and replace some of the leading Soviet officials, these officials carried out a plot, planning to retreat from the reformation course.
		On December 12, 1993 a new Constitution was taken in the course of the parliamentary elections and a referendum.
		Yeltsin struggled for his power as long as he could, even when it seemed to be impossible.
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	Ekaterinburg
		The city's best known son is Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin.
		Yeltsin also had "Ipatiev House" demolished, the house in whose basement the last tsar of Russia was killed.
		Cathedral-on-the-Blood Russian Orthodox Cathedral is being built on the grounds of the former Ipatiev House and is expected to be completed by June/July 2003.
	www.sandia.gov /ASC/russia/ekaterinburg.html (762 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Russian defense minister at the time, Pavel Grachev, assured then President Boris Yeltsin that the Chechen capital Grozny could be seized in two hours by a regiment of paratroopers.
		Yeltsin later publicly acknowledged that the decision to launch an onslaught on Chechnya was a "serious mistake."
		Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who would succeed Yeltsin as president a few weeks later, presented the new war as a crusade against Chechen "terrorists" that he blamed for a series of deadly apartment bombings in Moscow.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/12/c3c0852f-5e10-4634-b69a-1c47747aa153.html (1235 words)

	Boris Yeltsin : Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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		In 1977 as party boss in Sverdlovsk, he ordered the destruction of the Ipatiev House where the last II of Russia">Tsar had been murdered.
		Now he's gone and left us, and Fremont "If so, he is now on his way back to New York.
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		But the visit from the person the press has billed as Yeltsin's right-hand man and Kremlin gatekeeper was practically unannounced, with officials at the governor's office unaware of it, even late the evening beforehand.
		Sergei Markov of the Moscow-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace attributed Chubais' stiff demeanor Thursday to fears that Yeltsin is cooling towards his youthful chief of staff.
		Markov said Thursday that consolidating power in a few hands had indeed been the plan in case Yeltsin were to die during his heart surgery.
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	President Boris Yeltsin BORIS YELTSIN boris yeltsin biography life links Boris Yeltsin Biography Life 100 Top Links
		Yeltsin filed papers showing that his income for 1995 was 27 million rubles ($5,600), down from 552 million rubles in 1994.
		Yeltsin is expected to discuss disarmament issues later this week when he meets with U.S. President Bill Clinton on the sidelines of a summit of the seven leading industrial nations plus Russia in Birmingham, England.
		President Boris Yeltsin issued an instruction to dismiss colonel-general Valery Manilov from the post of deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council and transfer him to the Russian defence ministry, the press service of the Russian President said in its statement today.
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	CNN Cold War - Episode Script: Conclusions
		Boris Yeltsin, Gorbachev's enemy and rival, defended him, and the constitution.
		Yeltsin was the victor and was now in command.
		Narration: Humiliated by Yeltsin, and at last realizing that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's role was finished, Gorbachev resigned as general secretary.
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	The Post-Soviet Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In this period, Russia changed to a democracy instead of a republic.
		Boris Yeltsin was the first democratically elected president of Russia.
		In 1991, the rulers of several USSR countries agreed to be independent, thus the USSR ceased to exist.
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	Boris Yeltsin
		What is needed now is your support." Yeltsin has canceled meetings and public appearances since June 28.
		Vladimir Solovyov and Yelena Klepikova, Boris Yeltsin, London, 1992.
		"Yeltsin's Health Is Worrisome, US Analysts Say" (Boston Globe, Feb. 23, 1996).
	www.cs.indiana.edu /hyplan/dmiguse/Russian/bybio.html (5243 words)

	Putin Marks Russia Day with Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		President Vladimir Putin marked ``Russia Day'' Tuesday with veiled criticism of Boris Yeltsin's patchy record on reform, then promptly bestowed an award on his predecessor for services to the nation.
		Yeltsin, whose shock resignation on New Year's Eve, 1999, catapulted Putin into the presidency, attended the glittering Kremlin event with his wife Naina and scores of figures from Russia's political, business and cultural life.
		June 12 marks Yeltsin's 1991 election as president of the Russian Federation, but also coincides with the anniversary of a 1990 vote by the Congress of People's Deputies setting out Russia's democratic goals within the Soviet Union.
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	Chronology to Present
		Boris Yeltsin becomes first democratically elected Russian President
		Yeltsin and Clinton meet in Helsinki to discuss expansion of NATO
		Yeltsin and Clinton sign "Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation" which creates a permanent joint council including Russia in NATO decision-making.
	www.bucknell.edu /Academics/Colleges_Departments/Academic_Departments/Foreign_Language_Programs/Russian_Studies/Resources/History/Chronology/To_present.html (473 words)

	Papers
		Yavlinsky, who finished fourth in the first round, is potentially a pivotal figure in the race.
		He has conditionally endorsed incumbent Boris Yeltsin, but he is scheduled to meet with the president.
		I think Yeltsin must now turn to the voters, and constantly speak with them, address their concerns.
	www.eng.yabloko.ru /Publ/2000/Papers/yavl_rt.html (1065 words)

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		He enjoyed widespread support - not only from Yeltsin but from the mainly Communist Lower House of parliament, the Duma.
		And for Boris, that's exactly why he had to go.
		The world is going to have to accept that Boris just does not give a damn about the good of his people - his only concern is to save his own skin.
	www.uk.aol.com /channels/news/outthere/1999/0512/basic.htm (391 words)

	Brief information: Yeltsin Boris Nickolaevich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On February,15 1996 during his working visit to Yekaterinburg, Boris Yeltsin officially declared he would stand for the second term -in-office.
		On March,25 1996 an Initiative group which nominated Boris Yeltsin for the second term-in-office, presented all the documents necessary to register him as an official candidate: a list of 1 372.000 voters' signatures in support of Mr.Yeltsin and his Pre sidential bid, dated on March,23
		The Central Electoral Commissions early returns show, Boris Yeltsin has received 35,06 votes and got into the second round runoff.
	www.nns.ru /e-elects/e-persons/eltzin.html (328 words)

	The Presidential Elections - Gateway To Russia - News From Russia
		He inherited from Yeltsin a weak government that was being torn in every direction by the oligarchs.
		It is the residence of the President of Russia, Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, who was elected by the Russian people.” Putin was cunning.
		However, the well-known “equidistancing of the oligarchs” happened extremely rapidly, as if the people who were doing the “equidistancing” were not the ones who had recently reelected Yeltsin.
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