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When he came across the grocery store’s vast and varied selection of fresh fish, Yeltsin remarked, according to Asin, "Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev." ...

As the president of Russia, the largest nation among the 15 republics constituting the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin denounced the conservatives’ move as a coup, and said that Gorbachev was placed ...

Gorbachev's reforms and Boris Yeltsin's determination to form autonomous regions within the U.S.S.R. brought down the oppressive Soviet system in August 1991. The change was sudden and astounding.

He probably understood far earlier than Gorbachev that perestroika ... As it was, he had to leave the field to Boris Yeltsin, and in 1992, returned, disillusioned, to the Georgian capital ...

The Soviet Union's collapse and America's current decline have remarkable similarities. The Soviet Union failed because it marginalized the entrepren ...

The final straw was the coup d'état staged by a group of Soviet leaders, an uprising that was disarmed by an unstoppable Yeltsin, while Gorbachev returned from his imprisonment in the south of ...

Yeltsin was most struck by the store's stark comparison to a typical Russian grocery store at the time. "Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,'' Yeltsin said as he ...