Boris yeltsin net worth
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Boris Yeltsin
Died: 2007
Originally from: Kazan
Profession: Politician
At: Moscow
Transformer of the new Russia, and a quite heroic lush, Boris Yeltsin died five years ago next week - but his vodka dancing will long outlive him.
So who was Boris Yeltsin?
Born in Siberia into a family so poor they had to move when their only cow died, Boris Yeltsin was almost drowned during his baptism when a drunken priest dropped him in a font, and later mangled his hand while disassembling a live hand grenade using a hammer and a rock.
Blessed with a razor sharp mind, he rose through the challenging environment of Soviet politics to become the man responsible for what Russia is today, from standing atop a tank to face down an attempted coup to authorising the brutal war in Chechnya.
Yet for many Westerners he will be more famous for a general fondness for liquids that makes Churchill seem like a Quaker, all the while with his finger on the nuclear button.
Where did he drink?
Where didn't he drink? State dinners. Private dachas. Limousines... Boats...
What did he d Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin had a weird relationship. There was the time the Russian president gave the U.S. president a pair of hockey jerseys that said “Yeltsin 96” and “Clinton 96.” There was also the time Clinton doubled over laughing when Yeltsin called the U.S. press “a disaster” at a press conference. But perhaps the weirdest incident in their professional relationship was when Yeltsin got drunk and wandered into the street in his underwear, trying to get a pizza. The incident happened during Yeltsin and Clinton’s first meeting in Washington in September 1994. Although there were glancing media reports about it over the years, it wasn’t widely reported on until 2009, when author Taylor Branch published his book The Clinton Tapes, based on his interviews with the president. “Secret Service agents discovered Yeltsin alone on Pennsylvania Avenue, dead drunk, clad in his underwear, yelling for a taxi,” Branch wrote in his book. “Yeltsin slurred his words in a loud argument with the baffled agents. He did not want to go back into Blair House, where he was staying. He wan President of Russia from 1991 to 1999 "Yeltsin" redirects here. For the name, see Yeltsin (name). Boris Yeltsin Official portrait, c. 1991–1993 Himself (as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR) Himself (as President of Russia) Vitaly Vorotnikov (as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR) Copyright ©bitelogy.pages.dev 2025•
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Boris Yeltsin
In office
25 December 1991 – 31 December 1999Prime Minister Vice President Alexander Rutskoy(1991–1993) Preceded by Succeeded by In office
10 July 1991 – 25 December 1991President Mikhail Gorbachev Prime Minister Preceded by Succeeded by In office
29 May 1990 – 10 July 1991Preceded by Succeeded by Ruslan Khasbulatov In office
23 December 1985 – 11 November 1987Preceded by Viktor Grishin Succeeded by Lev Zaykov Born (1931-02-01)1 February 1931
Butka, Ural Oblast, Soviet UnionDied 23 Ap