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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (; ) (February 1 1931 April 23 2007) was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin came to power with a wave of high expectations. On 12 June 1991 he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic with 57% of the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president. But Yeltsin never recovered his popularity after a series of economic and political crises in Russia in the 1990s. The Yeltsin era was... full article at wikipedia
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