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    Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who was the first president of Russia from...
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    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...
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    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...
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    the Politburo and brought Boris Yeltsin into the Central Committee Secretariat. On 23 December 1985, Gorbachev appointed Yeltsin First Secretary of the Moscow...
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    victory for the incumbent Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent politician. Yeltsin defeated the Communist Party of the Russian Federation...
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  • the security forces and government, became the successor to President Boris Yeltsin. After serving as the head of the Federal Security Service of the Russian...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Russia from 1991 to 1993. He was proclaimed acting president following Boris Yeltsin's impeachment during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, in which...
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  • Inauguration of Boris Yeltsin may refer to: First inauguration of Boris Yeltsin, 1991 Second inauguration of Boris Yeltsin, 1996 This disambiguation page...
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