Boris Yeltsin has played a crucial role in the history of Russia.
Boris Yeltsin has played a crucial role in the history of Russia.
We met on the beach and I offered him a game of tennis. He refused at first but when I offered to play doubles together, he agreed. You know the rest. Meeting Yeltsin simply changed not only my life but also had a profound effect on Russian tennis.
As a human being, I want to support Boris Nikolayevich (Yeltsin) and wish him recovery, ... the president's health is also a political matter.
President Yeltsin did mention his decision earlier in the day not to send additional ships to the region and reaffirmed that he will not allow Russia to be drawn into this conflict.
Gorbachev was literally hated in the 1990s. He was seen as the destroyer of the Soviet Union, the destroyer of everything that generations and generations had built. But much of that was fueled in the '90s, as it played into the hands of Boris Yeltsin, his successor in government.
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however. President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification of the two fraternal states and their peoples, a consistent and firm supporter of it, ... It is a geopolitical necessity and an economic reality.
President Yeltsin is pushing the nation to a civil war.
The meeting between Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin took place in a very warm and friendly atmosphere, ... Our relations are now at a peak and that meets the interests of both nations as well as the interests of regional and international stability.
President Yeltsin and the Russian leadership are convinced that NATO's plans to expand to the east, if realized, could be the West's biggest strategic mistake since the end of the Cold War,
The less (Yeltsin) interferes in day-to-day life and real politics, the faster the country will return to health,
We hope and expect President Yeltsin will abide by his prior statements that Russia will not get militarily involved in this situation.
President Yeltsin has said that the Russians do not plan to get involved in this conflict, and since that is a very reasonable tack for the Russians to take, we take him at his word on that.
Today Yeltsin is alone. People are pushed to the extreme. Western investors have become fierce and are angry with him.
We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.
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