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Boris Yeltsin (1 February 1931 —- 23 April 2007) was a Russian politician who became the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.

“We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone.

Freedom is like that. It’s like air.

Boris yeltsin brief biography of joe biden

When you have it, you don’t notice it.”

– Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin was born in the village of Butka, in Talitsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR on 1 February 1931. He graduated from Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk, with a qualification in construction.

He became a chief engineer within Sverdlovsk.

Yeltsin joined the Communist party in 1961, and by 1980 had become well connected, receiving the Order of Lenin medal and becoming a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in 1981.

During the leadership of President Gorbachev, Yeltsin became a close supporter of the reform movement (Perestroika and Glasnost), initiated by Gorbachev.

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