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Boris Yeltsin

Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)

12 dated entries naming Boris Yeltsin, drawn from 9 separate years between 1931 CE and 2007 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1931February 1 – Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)source
  • 1977July 27 – The Soviet Politburo orders Boris Yeltsin to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were shot in 1918. Yeltsin later refers to this as a barbarian act.source
  • 1992November 18 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin releases the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of Korean Air Flight 007, which was shot down by the Soviets in 1983.source
  • 1993August 25 – Boris Yeltsin, on an official state visit to Poland, lays a wreath at the Katyn memorial.source
  • 1993October 4 – The Russian constitutional crisis culminates with Russian military and security forces, using tanks and clearing the White House of Russia Parliament building by force, quashing a mass uprising against President Boris Yeltsin.source
  • 1994January 14 – U.S. president Bill Clinton and Russian president Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.source
  • 1996July 3 – Boris Yeltsin is re-elected as President of Russia after the second round of elections.source
  • 1996May 27 – First Chechnya War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a ceasefire for the dispute.source
  • 1998Boris Yeltsin dismisses Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in "an effort to make economic reforms more energetic and effective."source
  • 1998October 20 – Boris Yeltsin announces he will not seek reelection in 2000.source
  • 1999December 31 – Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting president until a new election can be held.source

21st century

  • 2007April 23 – Boris Yeltsin, 76, Russian politician, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999), heart failure.source

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