yeltsin in English

noun

family name; Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), Russian politician, first president of Russia following the breakup of the Communist bloc (1991-1999)

Use "yeltsin" in a sentence

1. Yeltsin was Russia's first popularly elected president.

2. Boris Yeltsin was Russia's first democratically elected president.

3. The anti-constitutional decree of President Yeltsin is annulled."

4. That June, Yeltsin became Russia's first democratically elected President.

5. The rest of the democrats are wavering between supporting Yeltsin and Yavlinsky.

6. Yeltsin told parliament leaders Tuesday at the Kremlin.

7. It remains a mystery whether Yeltsin knew about it and was deliberately obfuscating.

8. But Yeltsin is nothing if not a risk-taker.

9. Mr Yeltsin insists simultaneous balloting could create a dangerous power vacuum.

10. Yeltsin maintained a low profile after his resignation, making almost no public statements or appearances.

11. After the crisis, Yeltsin was at the end of his political career.

12. Yeltsin termed the results a mandate for him to continue in power.

13. Yeltsin fired his deputy chief of staff, Alexander I.. Kazakov, on Friday.

14. 13 It allows Mr Yeltsin to put a reformer into this influential position.

15. Soviet leaders still did not discount the prospect of a compromise with Yeltsin.

16. On 12 June, Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia by popular vote.

17. Yeltsin declared: Those, who went against the peaceful city and unleashed bloody slaughter, are criminals.

18. At the time,[Sentence dictionary] the Kremlin said Yeltsin was suffering merely from a cold.

19. Though only 638 deputies were present (the quorum was 689), Congress purported to impeach Yeltsin.

20. Other tapes of Yeltsin edited and supplied by the Kremlin have contained no voice recording.

21. In response, Yeltsin announced a state of emergency and dispatched troops to the border of Chechnya.

22. Stroyev said afterward that Yeltsin was still suffering the aftereffects of his recent bout with pneumonia.

23. So the visit to this country by Boris Yeltsin is a timely reminder of the opportunities in that former superpower.

24. In the first Russian presidential election in 1991 Yeltsin became president of the Russian SFSR.

25. Zyuganov, successful in forcing Yeltsin into a runoff, has seen his political fortunes slip recently.

26. 7 Boris Yeltsin and his team wanted to privatize land after toppling the Soviet system.

27. McFaul is among the analysts who said Yeltsin made a good start with the Chechnya peace plan.

28. Yeltsin fumed at questions of whether the nuclear summit and surrounding meetings were tailored to his political ambitions.

29. • Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less Bloody but even harder for him to win

30. On November 11, 1987, Yeltsin was fired from the post of First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party.

31. But the decision to give antibiotics to Yeltsin may have been precautionary and not indicative of his condition.

32. Lastly, trench warfare is a policy Mr Yeltsin has pursued with some success for much of the past 12 months.

33. Although the president Boris Yeltsin banned the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CPRF took its place

34. Although Gorbachev was the nominal chief of state, Boris Yeltsin now had immense popular support and wielded more substantial power.

35. The unspoken assumption in all the speculation is that Yeltsin is too sick to serve out his four-year term.

36. Previously he served as the 30th Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin.

37. 1 Yeltsin is taking shots from Communists, ultranationalists and even the progressive democrats who used to be his allies.

38. He declared the office extinct, and all of its powers (such as control of the nuclear arsenal) were ceded to Yeltsin.

39. Yeltsin returned to work at the end of December after five months of preparation for and convalescence from his November surgery.

40. But he is angriest at and reserves his strongest denunciation for the intelligentsia, whom he accuses of sycophantic devotion to Yeltsin.

41. The return of Communists to power seemed possible even as late as the presidential runoff between Zyuganov and Yeltsin in July.

42. In a written order, Yeltsin charged his erstwhile buddy with slandering the president and his family and disclosing state secrets.

43. 29 Yeltsin took drastic steps to move his country toward a market economy, steps that required severe sacrifice for millions of people.

44. The tension between Soviet Union and Russian SFSR authorities came to be personified in the bitter power struggle between Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.

45. Yeltsin recovered, and started intensively criticizing Gorbachev, highlighting the slow pace of reform in the Soviet Union as his major argument.

46. But Yeltsin has met with only a handful of people in recent weeks, including Chernomyrdin and chief of staff Anatoly Chubais.

47. An agreement signed by presidents Clinton and Yeltsin in January 1994 to consider steps to make arms reduction irreversible has gone nowhere.

48. Yeltsin, awaiting implementation of his privatization program, demanded that parliament reinstate his decree powers (only parliament had the authority to replace or amend the constitution).

49. On the afternoon of October 3, armed opponents of Yeltsin successfully stormed the police cordon around the White House territory, where the Russian parliament was barricaded.

50. Nearly two years later, Yeltsin withdrew federal forces from the devastated Chechnya under a 1996 peace agreement brokered by Alexander Lebed, Yeltsin's then-security chief.