Sentence examples for of yeltsin from inspiring English sources

He seemed the opposite of Yeltsin, the mercurial bear.

People admire Putin because he appears not to suffer from the sins of Yeltsin.

On the screen was an old broadcast of Yeltsin addressing a crowd.

The oligarchs extorted a heavy price for their support of Yeltsin.

Berezovsky's courting of Yeltsin has become the stuff of Machiavellian legend.

Berezovsky's courting of Yeltsin is now the stuff of Machiavellian legend.

Vladimir Potanin, one of the original set of Yeltsin-era oligarchs, was partly responsible for the scheme, which gave him and Mikhail Prokhorov, his young business partner, control of the firm for a song.

This was reasonable as the FSB was also led by a coterie of Yeltsin-aligned officials.

He has been brutally critical of the Yeltsin government and of the opportunists.

In fact, a close reading of the Putin presidency shows that the intermingling of power and money so characteristic of the Yeltsin era remains at the core of Russian politics.

But for most practical purposes the hopes of the West to that effect have been bound up closely with the person of Mr Yeltsin, and they have been waning along with Mr Yeltsin himself.