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She fell out with Yeltsin over the war in Chechnya, and in 2010 was the first to sign a petition that Vladimir Putin should go.

Boris Yeltsin gained international acclaim when he occupied the Russian White House and faced down the threats of the leaders of the coup.

It was no surprise that most of Russia's intelligentsia did not recognise Yeltsin as one of "theirs" .

Gorbachev has never reconciled himself to Yeltsin's nine years in power which he sees as a time of chaos.

Yeltsin bombed his way out of the threat of civil war and managed to hang on to power, but Russia was left hobbled.

Yeltsin had a darker side as well that included embarrassing incidents in which he appeared to be drunk.

From TV you might see that President Yeltsin, before our meeting, he shook hands with me, and he put my hand to his heart, to his chest.

As you can see on TV, while meeting with me, President Yeltsin put my hand on his chest. Do your now what he uttered to me?

One prime topic of their lakeside conversation back then: how much they disliked the unfolding chaos of Boris Yeltsin's Russia.

Yeltsin faced up to the fact that he was no longer fit for the Russian presidency and resigned on New Year's Eve.

In Russia the instability of the Yeltsin years convinced many that the country would be better off if it became more self-reliant.

Yeltsin got hit hard by the old Communists, who said he had caved in to me on the important issues.

We agreed. " At this point Yeltsin struck the table and said, " Russia is not Nicaragua.

Boris Yeltsin visited the Katyn monument in Warsaw, as Russian president, and said as he laid flowers "forgive us, if you can" .

How much do you trust Yeltsin's account?

The tank commanders had joined Yeltsin's side and were defying whatever orders they might have been receiving from the Yanaev gang.

Sometimes it runs away with him. Boris Yeltsin is dismissed in barely a page as a "sinister clown" .

At the end of our talk, Yeltsin said I had a good future even if I didn't get elected this time.

The White House mourned Yeltsin as "a historic figure" and offered condolences to his relatives, according to reports.

The lesson Mr Putin drew from the Yeltsin era was that, for now, liberal freedoms in Russia equate to chaos and collapse.

Boris told him that he and I were still partners, and Al assured Yeltsin that our NATO policy hadn't changed.

To his own amazement, Yeltsin was not apprehended at the start of the operation.

The election was a ratification of Yeltsin's leadership to secure democracy, modernize the economy, and reach out to the West.

On July 16, 2001, President Jiang Zemin and his wife attended a tea party hosted by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his wife.

Over the next four months, Gorbachev and Yeltsin negotiated the transition of power made inevitable by the will of the people.

By Sunday, October 3, the conflict between Yeltsin and his reactionary opponents in the Duma erupted into a battle on the streets of Moscow.

Toward the end of September, Russia dashed back into the headlines, as hard-line parliamentarians tried to depose Yeltsin.

Zyuganov said Yeltsin had let his friend Bill kick him in the rear.

Although Gorbachev was the nominal chief of state, Boris Yeltsin now had immense popular support and wielded more substantial power.

Yet Mr Yeltsin, though he let the agency survive, did not use it as his power base.

Goldman's Petrostate, meanwhile, is an account of Russia's largely post-Yeltsin economic boom.

I asked Gorbachev what would have happened if the plotters had arrested Yeltsin as well as Gorbachev at the beginning.

Called a Communist maverick, Yeltsin holds a newspaper put out by an Inter - Regional Group of Soviet lawmakers in July 1989.

When Yeltsin was in power, as a result of changes in the diplomatic strategy, the Russian-Georgian relations experienced many ups and downs.

When Russia was struck by a severe financial crisis in 1998 Yeltsin turned to him again, though he had sacked him a few months earlier.

Boris Yeltsin asked him to serve first as deputy prime minister, then as finance minister and then as acting head of government.

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, the Kremlin said on Monday.

But Putin did far better than survive; within four months a declining Yeltsin asked Putin to take over as acting President.

But he changed his mind when fellow veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan rallied to Mr. Yeltsin's side.

The new year brought the loss of one of my old partners, as Boris Yeltsin resigned and was succeeded by Vladimir Putin.

"Between the ruble, Yeltsin, and the deep blue sea, it's been pretty crazy, " said Dennis with a hint of glee.

Yeltsin's corrupt cronyism encouraged a gangster capitalism from which Russia is still suffering.

No other country has undergone such tumultuous change in so short a time as Russia did under Yeltsin.

Yeltsin knew I was hurting because he also had recently lost his mother, whom he adored.

As Russia reeled from market reforms in 1992, Mr Chernomyrdin was an indispensable asset to Yeltsin.

Yeltsin dances at a rock concert in Rostov, Russia, on June 10, 1996. A few weeks later he defeats a Communist challenger and is re-elected.

Yep, that's where she normally was, in the Russian White House, where Yeltsin's government worked.

"He was our president, " said a mourner from Mr Yeltsin's native Urals. "History will decide if he was right or wrong. "

Yeltsin decided that the borders of the Russian Federation should follow those of the Soviet republics.

As communism fell he came to loathe Boris Yeltsin, Russia's leader, seeing him as the author of chaos and humiliation.

he has also overridden one of the big achievements of the Yeltsin era: a voluntary transfer of power from one political leader to another.

Before the first war started, Yeltsin's defence minister boasted that Grozny would be taken in two hours.

He says he did strategy forecasts for then-President Boris Yeltsin, adding that the details are "classified. "

But as the Baltic republics started galloping towards freedom, with Mr Yeltsin's enthusiastic support, that changed.

In retrospect, Mr Putin was lucky to inherit a recovering economy and an incipient oil- and commodity-price boom from Mr Yeltsin.

Russian President Yeltsin and German Chancellor Kohl chaired the troop withdrawal ceremony and delivered speeches.

They were privatized to urban, politically connected insiders under Yeltsin.

It was both a wise and a shrewd move, but I was going to miss Yeltsin.

But here in Moscow people were protesting. They were led by Yeltsin and this is why we have to give him due credit and hand it to Yeltsin.

The West may accommodate zigs and zags in Russian foreign policy as the price for helping Yeltsin keep his job.

This version invokes the spectre not of the cold war but of the anarchic presidency of Boris Yeltsin, Mr Putin's predecessor.

On April 14, I called Boris Yeltsin to request Russian troop participation in a post-conflict peacekeeping force, as in Bosnia.

The oligarchs'money would help Yeltsin fight the presidential election. In exchange, they wanted the commanding heights.

Their initial candidate was Yevgeny Primakov, a former head of foreign intelligence and briefly prime minister under Mr Yeltsin.

Boris Yeltsin's Russia seemed committed to the liberal model of political economy and closer integration with the West.

They contrast the stability and prosperity of the Putin years with the chaos and poverty of the Yeltsin years.

Yeltsin raises a bouquet in celebration of his election win.

During the visit, President Yeltsin and I have charted a course for the cross- century development of China- Russia relations .

1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.

The West may accommodate zigs and zags in Russian foreign policy as the rice for helping Yeltsin keep his job.

Yeltsin addressed a crowd of supporters calling for a general strike.

In mid-month, Boris Yeltsin survived his own impeachment vote in the Duma.

I also urged Yeltsin not to foreclose the possibility of future Russian membership.

But helping Boris Yeltsin and his reformers could be like feeding fish to seals.

The issue before them was whether Clinton should go ahead with the summit if Yeltsin took steps that looked dictatorial.

Tolerance for Boris Yeltsin's faults opened the way for the rigged elections and crony capitalism of Vladimir Putin's ex-KGB regime.

Gorbachev received a thorough dressing-down from the parliament and Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

A list was drawn up of the names of 200 people who would be immediately arrested, the first of whom was Yeltsin.

Beijing and Moscow signed agreements enhancing border cooperation during Yeltsin's two-day visit to China.

Judging from what be chosen reformation way and means, Yeltsin is a dyadic president of "revolution; "

The ruble and the financial markets collapsed, and Yeltsin was a spent force.

Once again, civil war was close: in October 1993 the stand-off between Yeltsin and his parliament turned into armed conflict.

NARRATOR: In Yeltsin's Russia, crony capitalism thrived. For many, reform came to mean corruption, inflation, and inequality.

Now Yeltsin and I had both kept our Helsinki commitments.

As Clinton's Vancouver summit with Yeltsin approached, the power struggle in Moscow grew more intense.

In 1992, his replacement, Boris Yeltsin, sent the Poles documentary proof, including the notorious Beria memorandum signed by Stalin.

And he praises his predecessors Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for destroying a system that had lost the people's support.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, also Yeltsin's once main opponent, has sent condolences to Naina, according toItar- Tass.

He should have got Yeltsin out of the way several years before he became a direct rival.

We will focus especially on Yeltsin's memoir, for which the other readings are a helpful context. Some questions regarding Yeltsin.

This moment I express my deep sympathy for the Yeltsin family, Gorbachev was quoted as saying.

The Bolsheviks may have disappeared for good when Yeltsin climbed atop a tank in August 1991, but the legacy of authoritarian rule lingers.

His attempt was stymied by the August 1991 putsch against him, and by Yeltsin's determination to seize all power for himself.

Muscovites vote in the Russia's first presdential elections. Incumbent Russian President Boris Yeltsin defeated.

The West tried to be a friend in the Yeltsin years, but has since been put off by Russian belligerence.

Even among those who spent sleepless nights on Mr. Yeltsin's barricades, few today can name all three men.

THE distinctively puffy features poked out from the open casket in which Boris Yeltsin lay after his death on April 23rd.

Yeltsin was still afraid of the domestic reaction to expansion.

Yeltsin extended a warm welcome to President Jiang for his visit.

Aboard Air Force One, on my way to California, I called Yeltsin with a message of support.

All the same, Mr Yeltsin stood for three fundamental principles.

They care little for the liberal opposition, which they associate with the chaos, poverty and oligarch-creating 1990s under Boris Yeltsin.

1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia.

As Mr. Yeltsin's troubles mounted, turnouts for the anniversary of the three men's deaths dwindled.

By 1993, when Bill Clinton took office and actively engaged with Boris Yeltsin, the crucial window of opportunity had closed.

Judging from leader and ruling way, Yeltsin is a president who absolute control on.

Yeltsin was polite and friendly, but slightly patronizing.

Yeltsin gets a warm welcome during his presidential campaign visit to Kazan.

Disarmed, Yeltsin seemed relieved.

Yeltsin had just kicked Zyuganov in the rear in the election by fighting for tomorrow's Russia instead of yesterday's.

The first is that he brought political stability after the chaos of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.

For his part, Yeltsin fears pressure from a NATO that is likely to expand closer to Russia's western border.

Yeltsin times is that close Russia nation history for 300 years is hit by one of the dimmest period.

He stood by Yeltsin in 1993 when the Communists and nationalists rebelled against the reformers.

And envy because Yeltsin stood in the place he should, he believed, have occupied himself.

Clinton told them he wanted to go as far as they could with Yeltsin.

By 1999, Mr. Putin was named prime minister, then acting president, after Boris Yeltsin resigned.

The Soviet Union was formally dissolved the following day and, on 27 December, Boris Yeltsin moved into Gorbachev's old office.

They also included Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the Shah of Iran.

Yeltsin shakes hands with children after his visit to a museum in Moscow's Kremlin on Sept.

No longer need Russia go to the West cap-in-hand for money, as it did in Boris Yeltsin's day.

On New Year's Eve, 1999, Yeltsin offered a surprise resignation and announced Putin as his successor.

Communist chieftains shunned the people. Mr Yeltsin mixed with them, sharing their fury about the shortages and indignities of daily life.

Mr Rahr says two camps vying to succeed Mr Yeltsin in 1999 proposed different paths for Russia.

He was different from Mr Yeltsin in age and temperament.

However, Yeltsin never recovered his popularity after a series of economic and political crises in Russia in the 1990s.

Indeed, Putin's first decree guaranteed Yeltsin and his family immunity from such probes.

It's a grand title, but it doesn't come with much security: Putin was Yeltsin's fifth Prime Minister in 17 months.

Yeltsin ruled out direct peace talks with rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev.

When the 1998 crisis struck, Mr Yeltsin defused the situation by sacking the prime minister and the entire government.

What, if anything, can you gather about Yeltsin's attitude to laws and rules?

Russia reformer and former president Boris Yeltsin dies at 76.

Some in the queue had stood with Mr Yeltsin outside Russia's parliament in 1991, to face down a hardline putsch.

What happened to Yeltsin's reform strategy by January 1994? Why?

1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.

Yeltsin: A Life. By Timothy J. Colton. Basic Books, 2008.

After the 1998 crisis Yeltsin's approval ratings, already in the dumps, plummeted from 15% to 1%.

Zyuganov has run for president in the 1996, 2000, 2008, but were lost to Boris Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev.

The pact, which was officially signed in 2008, was mainly negotiated between former Presidents Jiang Zemin and Boris Yeltsin.

Now we have a Boris Yeltsin who has joined the Monday Club.

This contrasted sharply with his hard-drinking and chronically ill predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, who died last year.

At one point Yeltsin climbed atop a tank and rallied the people to oppose the coup.

in 1994 boris yeltsin slept through a stopover at shannon airport , where he was due to meet albert reynolds , the irish prime minister

Police club concertgoers as they surge toward the stage during a "Rock for Yeltsin" concert on Red Square. (1996)

Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia

Analysis of Yeltsin's Personal Diplomacy and Its Function

Judging from what are held position and what choose rejuvenation of the Chinese nation road, Yeltsin is a party groupings president;

The Changing Progress of the Russian Political--From Yeltsin to Putin

Revisit Some Important Issues on Economic Transition in Yeltsin's Government

Moscow's Reformer Yeltsin Stirs Up the City

a comparison between yeltsin ' s chechen policy and putin ' s

The Administration Reform of Russia in the Yeltsin Times

Yeltsin gets a warm welcome during his presidential campaign visit to Kazan. (1996)

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin