Sentence examples for yeltsin from inspiring English sources

The loss of Mr Chernomyrdin has raised the stakes sharply should Mr Yeltsin die or be incapacitated in office.

A turning point took place on the last day of the millennium when Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned, elevating his prime minister, Vladimir Putin, to the presidency.

Yeltsin and to a lesser extent Kravchuk were since severely discredited by their terms in office, but Shushkevich denies that there were any ulterior motives in their December 1991 act of dissolution.

It will be a better survival strategy for more KGB men over a longer time; and if their caste was strong enough to hang together through the breakup of the Soviet Union and the chaos of the Yeltsin years, it is surely strong enough to enforce collective discipline now.

And at times when all the alternatives seem worse, people outside Russia have often concluded that indecision and drift in the Kremlin, under a moribund monarch, is a state of affairs they can live with.In the case of Mr Yeltsin this calculation no longer holds.

Mr Yeltsin ruled out a quick currency union.

President Boris Yeltsin presided over the Kremlin during the bleakest period, from 1991 to 1999.

For Shushkevich the reversion to Soviet ways is a big disappointment from the heady days of 1991, when he hosted Boris Yeltsin of Russia and Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine at the meeting in which the Soviet Union was formally buried.

A number of well-known figures have been buried in the convent's cemetery, including writers Anton Chekhov and Nikolai Gogol, composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and former president Boris Yeltsin.

Before he became totally enfeebled a few months ago, Mr Yeltsin himself gave warning that the forces of authoritarian chauvinism were growing in Russia.

When India last had a crisis Boris Yeltsin was about to stand on a tank in Moscow and Nirvana was hitting the big time.