Boris Yeltsin

Born: February 1, 1931 Died: April 23, 2007

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin [Бори́с Никола́евич Е́льцин] (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Russian and former Soviet politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, he later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism and Russian nationalism.

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (English (en))

You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.