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	CNN Cold War - Profile: Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
		The first-ever popularly elected leader of Russia, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a protégé of Mikhail Gorbachev's.
		Yeltsin's place in history was assured during the August 1991 coup by communist hard-liners.
		Meanwhile, Yeltsin was negotiating with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus for a new arrangement to replace the Soviet Union.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/yeltsin (517 words)

	Boris Yeltsin - MSN Encarta
		Yeltsin finished secondary school in the oblast center of Sverdlovsk (later renamed Yekaterinburg) in 1950 and graduated from the civil engineering division of the Urals Polytechnic Institute in 1955.
		After Mikhail Gorbachev became the new general secretary in 1985, Yeltsin was one of the first provincial officials to be brought to Moscow as part of Gorbachev’s drive to revitalize the Soviet system.
		On December 8, Yeltsin teamed with Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislau Shushkevich, the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus, to hammer the final nail in the USSR’s coffin.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761562873 (2405 words)

	Boris Yeltsin \| World news \| guardian.co.uk
		Yeltsin's second outstanding claim to fame was his decision to launch Russia towards market reforms via the route known as "shock therapy", again covering himself with an avalanche of praise and fury.
		Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in the village of Butko in the Urals.
		Yeltsin argued for a new treaty to transform the Soviet Union, not to abolish it.
	www.guardian.co.uk /world/2007/apr/23/russia.guardianobituaries (4002 words)

	PWHCE Who's Who of Russia - Tribute: The Talented Mr Boris Yeltsin
		Consequently Yeltsin's capacity to enact reform was constricted by the absence of a strong civil society and Russia's lack of a democratic society.
		Yeltsin's subsequent travails were often portrayed as a type of poetic justice that was his due for having destroyed the Soviet system and to imply that Russia's break with communism had been a mistake.
		From Yeltsin's perspective Primakov's tenure as Prime Minister was a positive one in that it facilitated a degree of co-operation between the executive and legislature which enabled Russia to avoid a catastrophic financial collapse and to rein in Russia's tycoons.
	www.pwhce.org /yeltsin.html (4026 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.
		On Chechnya, Yeltsin said that the two commissions on resolving the conflict had sent him recommendations and that a "peaceful resolution would be based on them." In spite of the ongoing fighting, he described his policy as a set of measures based on negotiations and strengthening the legitimacy of Chechnya's government.
		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.acs.brockport.edu /~dgusev/Russian/bybio.html (5243 words)

	Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1990, Yeltsin was elected to the Russian Republic's Supreme Soviet, was elected Russian president by that body, and resigned from the Communist party.
		Although Yeltsin won approval of his proposed constitution, which guaranteed private property, a free press, and human rights, in the Dec., 1993, voting, many of his opponents won seats in the new legislature.
		In June, 1996, Yeltsin again ran for the presidency against a number of other candidates and won the first round, garnering 35% of the vote to Communist Gennady Zyuganov 's 32%; Yeltsin won the runoff election held in July.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-yeltsin.html (795 words)

	Yeltsin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Boris Nikolayevitch Yeltsin was born Feb. 1, 1931, in the village of Butko, in Russia's Sverdlovsk Province.
		Yeltsin not only mingled with the city's populace, its commuters, workers and shoppers, he also confronted the established bureaucracy, as well as the town's retail merchants, with his brusque attacks on their inefficiencies and corrupt practices.
		Yeltsin regards the amnesties of the August 1991 coup plotters and of the October 1993 parliamentary rebels as a public betrayal of his position and judgment.
	www.mhsource.com /exclusive/yeltsin.html (3302 words)

	Boris Yeltsin - The Boston Globe
		Yeltsin first came to prominence in 1985 as a protege of Communist Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, who sought to reform the Soviet Union.
		Yeltsin saw an opening, got elected to parliament, and won the presidency of Russia, largest of the republics, in June 1991.
		That democracy persists at all in Russia is a tribute to Yeltsin's stubbornness, daring, and showmanship.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2007/04/24/boris_yeltsin (395 words)

	michael specter--review--midnight diaries
		Yeltsin's resignation came as a genuine shock, and he says in this book that he did it because ''the new century must begin with a new political era.'' An honorable gesture and possibly even a true statement.
		Yeltsin also writes, however, that ''it was important not to have any slip-ups or leaks.'' And he leaves no doubt about what would have happened if his surprise had been ruined.
		Yeltsin spent much of his time in office, and spends most of the pages of this book, playing with his power.
	www.michaelspecter.com /times/2000/2000_11_26_rev_yeltsin.html (1483 words)

	Yeltsin Mythology
		The political honeymoon went sour because Yeltsin, cleansed though he was by his break with the communist party, has never been able to transcend his limitation as a communist-style politician, a tough and abrasive secretary of the regional party committee.
		Yeltsin construed the early cooperation of the disbanded Parliament as its acknowledgement of his right to rule unchallenged, because his political experience was shaped by the communist script--a servile Soviet legislature bows and scrapes before the party’s First Secretary.
		Similalrly, among the key reasons why Yeltsin renegged on his solemn promise of an early presidential election was the fear that, in the absence of strong parties, his government would simply disintegrate as his lieutenants metamorphosed into presidential candidates.
	home.comcast.net /~gfreidin/columns/yeltsin_93.htm (1032 words)

	FOXNews.com - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin Dead, Kremlin Says - International News \| News of the World \| ...
		Yeltsin is expected to be buried in a private cemetery and not Red Square, because of his affiliation with the Russian Orthodox Church.
		Yeltsin was a contradictory figure, rocketing to popularity in the Communist era on pledges to fight corruption — but proving unable, or unwilling, to prevent the looting of state industry as it moved into private hands during his nine years as Russia's first freely elected president.
		Yeltsin damaged his democratic credentials by using force to solve political disputes, though he claimed his actions were necessary to keep the country together.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,267831,00.html (2572 words)

	Boris Yeltsin's Historic Role
		Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, who passed away on April 23 at the age of 76, was a controversial ruler to whom the Russian people owe a debt of gratitude.
		Yeltsin, the son and grandson of peasants from the Ural Mountains who were punished by Stalin, was a loyal apparatchik in the big industrial city of Sverdlovsk, the heart of the Soviet military-industrial complex.
		Yeltsin valiantly led the Parliament and the throng of citizens who stood against the Russian tanks of the August 1991 communist hardliner coup.
	www.heritage.org /Research/RussiaandEurasia/wm1433.cfm (1249 words)

	AEI - Short Publications - Yeltsin's Legacy
		Yeltsin was both a bellwether of the gathering Russian storm and part of the storm itself.
		The territorial and economic concessions that Yeltsin made to Ukraine, whose independence he recognized ahead of all other world leaders on December 3, 1991, after it had been part of the Russian Empire for almost three and a half centuries, may be without precedent in the relations between metropoles and their former territories.
		On Oct. 28, 1991, Yeltsin went to the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia to seek a mandate for the price liberalization and privatization plan (which, as many in Russia and the West would soon so conveniently forget, was granted by an 876-16 vote).
	www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.26061/pub_detail.asp (1675 words)

	CNN - Yeltsin to meet doctors, discuss surgery date - Sept. 24, 1996
		MOSCOW (CNN) -- Boris Yeltsin's doctors -- including American heart specialist Michael DeBakey -- were to meet with the Russian president around noon Wednesday to discuss a possible date for his bypass surgery, the Kremlin said.
		Yeltsin's chief heart surgeon, Renat Akchurin, suggested over the weekend that the operation might be delayed as much as two months if Yeltsin is deemed too sick to proceed.
		Yeltsin, 65, is suffering from liver and kidney problems as well as a heart condition.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9609/24/yeltsin.surgery/index.html (600 words)

	Former Russian leader Yeltsin dead - CNN.com
		One of the images most associated with Yeltsin is that of him sitting on a tank during the raucous street rallies that marked the coup attempt.
		Yeltsin favored privatization but sweeping corruption put the vast majority of wealth in the hands of a few individuals who "wielded enormous political power." Chance said this upset and angered many Russians who were left with nothing.
		Yeltsin had a darker side as well that included embarrassing incidents in which he appeared to be drunk.
	www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/europe/04/23/russia.yeltsin (931 words)

	Worldandnation: Yeltsin resign
		Yeltsin reportedly had been looking for assurances for the safety of himself and his family when he steps down.
		Yeltsin said he saw no point in staying in power for the last six months of his term because Putin was well-suited to take over.
		Yeltsin said he was confident Russia would not return to its authoritarian past and would develop as a modern democratic nation.
	www.sptimes.com /News/123199/Worldandnation/Yeltsin_resign.shtml (1004 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies
		But Mr Yeltsin, who became Russia's first democratically-elected leader after Mr Gorbachev resigned in December 1991, saw his final years in office overshadowed by increasingly erratic behaviour and plummeting popularity as the economy suffered.
		Bouts of ill-health were accompanied by rumours of a drinking problem, exhibited most famously when Mr Yeltsin grabbed a conductor's baton in Berlin and, apparently inebriated, tried to sing along with the orchestra.
		Speaking in an interview with Russian television in 2000, Mr Yeltsin said that he saw the lives lost in Chechnya as the biggest responsibility he had to bear.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/6584481.stm (800 words)

	Moon \| Boris Yeltsin Enters the History Books (I)
		Yeltsin, at great personal risk stood openly on an army tank in defiance of the coup and declared that Russia would never return to a neo-Stalinist system; from that moment on Gorbachev and the Communist Party were in power in name only.
		Yeltsin’s popularity at the time was beyond imagination: he had vanquished communism to its its own ash bin of history and he had done so without bloodshed.
		Yeltsin’s troubles would begin almost immediately, however, as he had to transform himself from the most visible and vocal leader of a righteous rebellion to the president of a huge nation in the midst of its own redefinition.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_14/moon_yeltsin.html (1493 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Yeltsin parodies Clinton? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ground has been laid for proving that Yeltsin is a pawn of Western money interests, that he was elected with Western money and will stay in power with CIA backing.
		Yeltsin and Clinton are both accused of undermining national defense.
		Yeltsin and Clinton are both said to have addictions -- one to alcohol, the other to girls.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19737 (1393 words)

	Boris Yeltsin is dead at age 76 - Europe- msnbc.com
		Russian President Boris Yeltsin and President Clinton laugh at Yeltsin's joke about journalists during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, N.Y., on Oct. 23, 1995.
		Yeltsin rocketed to popularity in the Communist era on pledges to fight corruption, but he proved unable or unwilling to prevent the looting of state industry as it moved into private hands during his nine years in power.
		When Yeltsin criticized Gorbachev at a party meeting in 1987, the Soviet leader fired him, and he reportedly was hospitalized with heart problems.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/18271701 (984 words)

	Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A week later, on December 8, Yeltsin met with Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk and the leader of Belarus, Stanislau Shushkevich, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, where the three presidents announced the dissolution of the Soviet Union and that they would establish a voluntary Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place.
		The conflict exacerbated on March 20, 1993 when Yeltsin, in a televised address to the nation, announced that he was going to assume certain "special powers" in order to implement his program of reforms.
		Boris Yeltsin is the name of a foosball shot that is scored by banking the ball off a side wall and into the opponent's goal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boris_Yeltsin (3814 words)

	Amazon.com: Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life: Books: Leon Aron (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yeltsin's job was to present a "democratic" face to the West while the robbery was being carried out, not to heft the sacks of cash out to the car by himself.
		Yeltsin was a daring and shrewd politician who battled his way to the top, but his political triumph has been a disaster for Russia.
		Yeltsin correctly foresaw that the coup would fail, at a time when this was far from obvious to everyone else.
	www.amazon.com /Yeltsin-Revolutionary-Life-Leon-Aron/dp/0312251858 (3642 words)

	PUTIN OBSERVED: Yeltsin's Choice by GWENDOLYN STEWART
		The early resignation was, on the face of it, a strategic sacrifice, a typical Yeltsin castling maneuver.
		Yeltsin, who has a reputation for insisting on proper language himself, seems to have a bit of a weakness for these guys, balancing the economic liberals and "Young Reformers" who joined his team at one time or another.
		Yeltsin's own position and the continuation of his fundamental political orientation both therefore seemed likely to be guaranteed.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~gestewar/putinobserved.html (1638 words)

	Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin — Infoplease.com
		Yeltsin began working full-time for the Communist Party in 1968, was appointed secretary of Sverdlovsk in 1976, and received induction into the Central Committee in 1981.
		Dedicated to reform, Yeltsin's sharp critique of conservatives and his claims that Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika policies were insufficient forced him to resign and assume the trivial post of Deputy Minister for Construction.
		Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin - Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, 1931–2007, Soviet and Russian...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0771104.html (579 words)

	Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin — Infoplease.com
		In 1990, Yeltsin was elected to the Russian Republic's Supreme Soviet, was elected Russian president by that body, and resigned from the Communist party.
		Although Yeltsin won approval of his proposed constitution, which guaranteed private property, a free press, and human rights, in the Dec., 1993, voting, many of his opponents won seats in the new legislature.
		Yeltsin bounces back: in an exclusive interview, the president's wife provides an inside look at his recuperation.(Boris and Naina......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0853041.html (623 words)

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