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Yeltsin and Primakov
The principal concern of the Family was finding an " electable " successor to Yeltsin to counter presidential aspirations of then prime-minister Yevgeny Primakov who was leaning to the Communists.
Before Yeltsin ’ s resignation, Primakov supported the Fatherland – All Russia electoral faction, which at that time was the major opponent of the pro-Putin Unity, and launched his presidential bid.
In September 1998, after Russia's 1998 financial crash brought down Sergei Kirienko government, Yavlinsky proposed the candidacy of Yevgeny Primakov who was elected Prime Minister in spite of resistance from Yeltsin, his family and entourage.
In May 1999, as Yeltsin regained power and was preparing to dismiss Primakov, Yavlinsky joined forces with the Communist Party in an attempt to impeach Yeltsin.
Many observers of Russian politics believed that Luzhkov and his new ally, former prime minister Yevgeniy Primakov, would be likely to displace both Yeltsin and his inner circle in the parliamentary and presidential elections due to be held in late 1999 and mid-2000, respectively.

Yeltsin and was
Boris Yeltsin was elected the President of Russia in June 1991, in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.
Despite Gorbachev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected as president, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote.
Yeltsin used his role as president to trumpet Russian sovereignty and patriotism, and his legitimacy as president was a major cause of the collapse of the coup by hard-line government and party officials against Gorbachev in August 1991 Soviet Coup of 1991.
When his attempt to secure confirmation of Gaidar as prime minister was rejected, Yeltsin appointed Viktor Chernomyrdin, whom the parliament approved because he was viewed as more economically conservative than Gaidar.
Version 2. 2, GDW's final edition of the game, was published in 1993 and featured a background in which the KGB's Alpha Group obeyed the coup leaders in the August 1991 Soviet coup attempt and stormed the Russian White House, killing Boris Yeltsin and effectively preserving communist control.
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The new Russian Federation was headed by Boris Yeltsin, and would face severe economic difficulty.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Honecker took refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow, but was extradited by the Yeltsin administration to Germany in 1992.
In October 1991, as the USSR was on the verge of collapse, Yeltsin announced that Russia would proceed with radical market-oriented reform along the lines of Poland's " big bang ", also known as " shock therapy ".
Yeltsin, who represented a course of radical privatization, was opposed by the parliament.
In August 1996 Yeltsin agreed to a ceasefire with Chechen leaders, and a peace treaty was formally signed in May 1997.
Early in the campaign it had been thought that Yeltsin, who was in uncertain health ( after recuperating from a series of heart attacks ) and whose behavior was sometimes erratic, had little chance for reelection.
The Zyuganov campaign had a strong grass-roots organization, but it was simply no match to the financial resources and access to patronage that the Yeltsin campaign could marshal.
Grigory Yavlinsky was the liberal alternative to Yeltsin and Zyuganov.
After the success of political forces close to Putin in the December 1999 parliamentary elections, Yeltsin evidentially felt confident enough in Putin that he resigned from the presidency on December 31, six months before his term was due to expire.
Mulroney also stated that the work he had performed for his arms-trading business associate Schreiber was out-of-country, rather than lobbying his own Canadian government – such as lobbying the late President Boris Yeltsin that Russia buy arms yet to be made in Canada.
In 1977, the Ipatiev House was demolished by order of Boris Yeltsin, to prevent it from being used as a rallying location for monarchists.
During the 1991 coup d ' état attempt, Sverdlovsk, the home city of President Boris Yeltsin, was selected by him as a reserve capital for the Russian Federation, in the event that Moscow became too dangerous for the Russian government.
A reserve cabinet headed by Oleg Lobov was sent to the city, where Yeltsin enjoyed strong popular support at that time.
On 15 April 1996 Boris Yeltsin signed a presidential decree giving the Soviet flag ( called the Victory Banner, after the banner that was raised above the Reichstag on 1 May 1945 ) status similar to that of the national flag.
He was widely perceived to be an excellent campaigner and his excellent showing in the governorship ended hopes by the DPP of a " Yeltsin effect ", by which an elected governor would have more legitimacy than the national government.
In September 1994 Reynolds was infamously stood up by Russian president Boris Yeltsin whose plane landed at Shannon Airport but who failed to emerge to meet the waiting Irish dignatories.

Yeltsin and popularity
In the spring of 1996, with Yeltsin's popularity at a low ebb, Chubais and Yeltsin recruited a team of six leading Russian financiers and media barons ( all oligarchs ) who bankrolled the Yeltsin campaign with $ 3 million and guaranteed coverage on television and in leading newspapers directly serving the president's campaign strategy.
It is regarded that the popularity of Zhirinovsky and his party arose from the electorate's dissatisfaction with Yeltsin, and their desire for a non-communist solution.
After three days the coup collapsed due to the popularity of Boris Yeltsin, but during its brief grip of power Yanayev was made Acting President of the Soviet Union.

Yeltsin and dismissed
A political crisis came to a head in March when Yeltsin suddenly dismissed Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and his entire cabinet on March 23.
In August 1999, Yeltsin once again abruptly dismissed the government and named Vladimir Putin as his candidate to head the new government.
General Kulikov lost his position in March 1998 when President Boris Yeltsin dismissed the government of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.
The last member of the Russian government closely associated with Yeltsin, Kasyanov was dismissed, along with the entire Russian cabinet, by President Vladimir Putin on 24 February 2004 after more than three years in office.
On 17 October 1996, Yeltsin dismissed General Alexander Lebed from the position of National Security Advisor amid allegations that he was plotting a coup and secretly mustering a private army.
Eduard Rossel has been the only elected governor ( first elected governor for an oblast in Russia ) since 1995 ( appointed in 1991 and dismissed in 1993 by President Yeltsin ), re-elected in 1999 and 2003.
Moderately critical of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and still more so of rising independent politician Boris Yeltsin in his capacity as editor, Afanasyev was dismissed from his high position at Pravda after a period of falling circulation and a negative official reaction to the newspaper's highlighting Boris Yeltsin's troubles with alcohol during the Gorbachev administration in 1989 and spent the remaining half-decade of his life working for the national Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
In the leadup to the 1996 presidential election, Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismissed Defence Minister Pavel Grachev and replaced him with Rodionov.
Instead, she became presidential advisor on interethnic issues until the end of 1992, when she was dismissed by Yeltsin apparently under pressure from conservative elements for criticizing Moscow's support for Ossetians against the Ingush in the North Caucasus.

Yeltsin and him
In October 1991, during the " honeymoon " period after his resistance to the Soviet coup, Yeltsin convinced the legislature to grant him special executive ( and legislative ) powers for one year so that he might implement his economic reforms.
Panic struck the Yeltsin team when opinion polls suggested that the ailing president could not win ; members of his entourage urged him to cancel presidential elections and effectively rule as dictator from then on.
Yeltsin then named Sergei Stepashin, who had formerly been head of the FSB ( the successor agency to the KGB ) and later been Interior Minister, to replace him.
Yeltsin ’ s early purges of the MVD paid dividends in October 1993 when in spite of many " defections " to the opposition, the two most important people in the ministry, Minister of Internal Affairs Viktor Yerin and the Commander of Internal Troops Anatoliy Kulikov, stood by him to the victorious end of his stand-off with the Supreme Soviet.
During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis Boris Yeltsin ordered the use of tanks against the Russian parliament which opposed him.
The Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov was appointed by former President Yeltsin and was not seen as being particularly close to Putin, who once tried to remove him.
Yeltsin sacked Primakov's government shortly thereafter and replaced him with Sergey Stepashin as new prime-minister.
The GRU had recruited Basayev when they saw him and the Chechens of Moscow stand for and defend Boris Yeltsin from the Communists, with Basayev and his Chechens attacking the Communists.
After a reading of the names of all persons who had helped him in the alternative, he criticized the previous speaker to the prime minister and deputy party chairman, Hans Modrow, more than Karl Marx, Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.
Following the 1998 Russian financial crisis in August, Yeltsin re-appointed Chernomyrdin as prime minister, and attempted to designate him as his successor.
Yeltsin made it fairly clear when he appointed him Prime Minister that Stepashin would only hold the position temporarily, and he was replaced in August 1999 by future president Vladimir Putin.
In 1997, Russian President Yeltsin awarded him with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 3rd class.
Although not mentioned in his memoirs to any notable extent, Ligachev played a notable role in dismissing Yeltsin, arguing with him for long periods of time in 1987.
The State Duma, dominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, twice refused to confirm his appointment but president Boris Yeltsin nominated him a third time and Kiriyenko was confirmed.
In 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin pardoned him, and Khokhlov returned Moscow for a short stay, for the first time since the 1950s.
His unique service earned him medals from U. S. President Bill Clinton and President Boris Yeltsin of Russia at a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House marking the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994.
Yeltsin asked their relatives to forgive him for not being able to prevent their deaths.
In an address to the nation on October 6, Yeltsin also called on those regional Soviets that had opposed him — by far the majority — to disband.
At the time, most political observers regarded the draft constitution as shaped by and for Yeltsin and perhaps unlikely to survive him.
During the 1991 attack on the government by those opposed to Yeltsin, Nemtsov was a vehement supporter of the president, and stood by him during the entire clash.
She first meets Dante when he is trying to rob The Hotel Yalta and manges to steal the jewels from him, then they pull a heist on The Church Of The Skoptzy, then she cheats him out of the jewels from " The Romanov Job ", then years later she hires The Solnkin Assassin Society to start a war between Tsar Vladimir The Conqueror and Papa Yeltsin so she can take over Yeltsins criminal empire and New Moscow.

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