BORIS YELTSIN

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990.