Below you will find example sentences with "boris yeltsin". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Boris Yeltsin in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: boris
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "boris yeltsin" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 1996 when boris yeltsin controversially won, brezhnev and boris yeltsin, putin, russian and president stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with boris johnson, minister boris, boris becker, boris johnson, minister boris and boris becker, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with boris yeltsin
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In 1998, Russian President Boris Yeltsin named Putin director of the FSB. (12 words)
Or, like Boris Yeltsin before him, Putin might declare himself exhausted and nominate a successor. (15 words)
Once deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, Nemtsov was a popular politician and harsh critic of Putin. (17 words)
Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “I said to Boris Yeltsin that we should offer the job of the head of the Union State of Belarus and Russia to Bill Clinton because he would have to deal with problems there using our input anyway. (41 words)
Luik also recalled that while the Boris Yeltsin government is often regarded as one of the most democratic in Russian history to date, this did could not be applied to its foreign policy, at least not in relation to Estonia. (40 words)
Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, has been leader for longer than any other Russian ruler since Josef Stalin, beating even Leonid Brezhnev’s 18-year tenure. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
He was initially regarded as a Yeltsin loyalist; like other prime ministers of Boris Yeltsin, Putin did not choose ministers himself, his cabinet being determined by the presidential administration.
Either way, he started working in a team that served then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and was frequently sent on business trips with former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
From drunken buffoon and Clinton mascot, Boris Yeltsin, to Vladimir Putin, the Russian political leadership has been putting Russian security concerns forward as a political problem in need of resolution since 1991.
Gradually, and then suddenly, the Soviet Union dissolved into its constituent parts, with a defiant Russian President Boris Yeltsin atop a tank and all those hammers and sickles discarded along the streets of Moscow.
Once deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, Nemtsov was a popular politician and harsh critic of Putin.
Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, has been leader for longer than any other Russian ruler since Josef Stalin, beating even Leonid Brezhnev’s 18-year tenure.
Rutskoy, who served as deputy to President Boris Yeltsin, said Putin's should never have been launched.
Similarly, Putin aimed to dismantle the oligarchy that flourished under Boris Yeltsin’s rule, but in practice, he often replaced them with his own associates.
The story follows a failed Moscow creative in 1990s post-Soviet Russia amid widespread corruption under Boris Yeltsin’s leadership.
Asked by a BBC reporter if he'd looked after Russia, something that Boris Yeltsin had asked him to do before handing over the presidency at the end of 1999, Putin said he had.
Luik also recalled that while the Boris Yeltsin government is often regarded as one of the most democratic in Russian history to date, this did could not be applied to its foreign policy, at least not in relation to Estonia.
Without much doubts, Boris Yeltsin trusted and depended to a large extent as reformers, which included Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, and shared their Western liberal-democratic ideals.
It was the Bialowieza primeval forest in Belarus where the fate of the Soviet Union was decided under president Boris Yeltsin.
They did send money: bribes for the tiny clique of corrupt former bureaucrats surrounding Russia’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, from whom soon emerged a new class of violent oligarchs.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “I said to Boris Yeltsin that we should offer the job of the head of the Union State of Belarus and Russia to Bill Clinton because he would have to deal with problems there using our input anyway.
During the Cold War, the white sand beaches lining the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were popular with Soviet bigwigs such as Leonid Brezhnev and Boris Yeltsin.
In 1996, when Boris Yeltsin controversially won by a slim percentage, second-round turnout was 69.4%.
In 1998, Russian President Boris Yeltsin named Putin director of the FSB.
Kremlin hard-liners tried to seize power and enforce their will, but Boris Yeltsin rallied the army and citizens for freedom.
Or, like Boris Yeltsin before him, Putin might declare himself exhausted and nominate a successor.