Yeltsin, Boris
Yeltsin, Boris ( Nikolaevich Boris Yeltsin ) ( 1931 – )Russian statesman, President of the Russian Federation ( 1991 – 99 ). At first a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programme, he soon became its leading radical opponent. In 1990 Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; shortly afterwards he and his supporters resigned from the Communist Party. He emerged with new stature after an attempted coup in 1991 , during which he rallied support for Gorbachev; on the breakup of the USSR at the end of that year he became President of the independent Russian Federation. He survived another attempted coup in 1993 . Despite criticism over his handling of...
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