Yeltsin in a sentence

After the first election round, Yeltsin took the tactically significant step of appointing first-round presidential candidate Aleksandr Lebed, who had placed third behind Yeltsin and Zyuganov, as head of the Security Council.

Because the Federation Council initially included many regional administrators appointed by Yeltsin, that body often supported the president and objected to bills approved by the State Duma, which had more anti-Yeltsin deputies.

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.

However, as Yeltsin's standing with public opinion plummeted in 1995, Chernomyrdin became one of many Government officials who received public blame from the president for failures in the Yeltsin 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.

He expressed "hatred" for those in power in the 1990s, singling out Yeltsin, economic reform architect Anatoly Chubais, and "the oligarchs and the entire Komsomol-party gang that called themselves 'democrats'".

Key questions about Soviet nuclear weapons went unanswered when Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and their Belarusian counterpart gathered a week after the Ukrainian referendum to declare the end of the Soviet Union.

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 plan, concocted in Davos, was this: The billionaires would finance Yeltsin’s election campaign and their TV stations, including the formerly critical NTV, would line up behind him.

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.

The relationship between Lukashenko and Yeltsin had their ups and downs.

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.

Yeltsin’s prime minister, Putin, would be taking his place.