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Quote by Boris Yeltsin

“I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.”

Quote by Boris Yeltsin

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Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, was born on February 1, 1931, and passed away on April 23, 2007. He played a crucial role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Russian Federation. more

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