Boris Yeltsin --A Life In Images

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Boris Yeltsin was Russia's first post-Soviet president.
 
President Boris Yeltsin in Minsk on December 31, 1991 (TASS) Russian President Boris Yeltsin addresses a crowd of workers at the Kirov plant in Leningrad on March 23, 1991 (AFP) Yeltsin supporters rally in Moscow on March 10, 1991, ahead of a referendum on Russian President Boris Yeltsin (right) forces Mikhail Gorbachev to read out a list of those who supported the August 1991 putsch (AFP) Russian President Boris Yeltsin signing the protocol on creating the Commonwealth of Independent States in Almaty on December 21, 1991 (TASS) Yeltsin heading to vote in Russia\'s first presidential election as an independent country on June 12, 1991 (epa) Russia\'s parliament building burns after Yeltsin order troops to fire on it in October 1993 (TASS) Yeltsin drinks a toast with Western leaders ahead of a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe on May 9, 1995 (AFP) Yeltsin campaigning for reelection in Rostov-na-Donu on June 10, 1996 (AFP) Boris Yeltsin casts his ballot in a run-off presidential election on July 3, 1996 (TASS) President Boris Yeltsin announces his resignation on December 31, 1999 (TASS) Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) presents a state-service award to Boris Yeltsin in Moscow on November 30, 2001 (TASS) Former President Boris Yeltsin watching a volleyball tournament in Nizhny Tagil on April 25, 2004 (TASS)
 

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