tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14465238304215639792024-03-13T22:52:11.779-07:00RUSSIA REDUX: THE YELTSIN FILESRUSSIA REDUX: THE YELTSIN FILESPICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-10632809683066041372014-02-01T15:06:00.000-08:002014-02-02T17:15:19.291-08:00BORIS YELTSIN WOULD HAVE BEEN EIGHTY-THREE TODAY
BORIS YELTSIN
February 1, 1931-April 23, 2007
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH YELTSIN
In Harbin, China
November 11, 1997
PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Haerbin, Heilongjiang, China45.80227 126.5362599999999742.9464295 121.37268599999997 48.6581105 131.69983399999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-23066591812640417862013-08-29T13:38:00.002-07:002013-08-29T14:10:56.302-07:00THE END. OF THE PARTY. TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO. AND THE ROLE OF BORIS YELTSIN.
THE SUPREME SOVIET
OF THE USSR
SUSPENDS ALL ACTIVITIES OF
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF
THE SOVIET UNION (CPSU)
August 29, 1991
BORIS YELTSIN IN HIS SEAT AT
THE 28th (AND LAST) CONGRESS OF
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION
(CPSU), MOSCOW, JULY 1990
YELTSIN WALKING OUT OF THE PARTY, here
Twenty-two years ago today, thePICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7512419 37.618421755.1792854 36.327528199999996 56.323198399999995 38.9093152tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-16880124372062165212013-08-21T17:14:00.002-07:002013-08-21T17:28:44.679-07:00THE LAST DAY OF THE AUGUST 1991 SOVIET COUP
THE RUSSIA DELEGATION
BRINGS MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
HOME TO MOSCOW
THE SOVIET DELEGATION
IS ACED OUT
Russia Vice-President ALEKSANDR RUTSKOI
(center left, with dark hair and moustache) and
Russian Prime Minister IVAN SILAYEV
(center right, with white hair)
at the Congress of People's Deputies of&PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7512419 37.618421755.1792854 36.327528199999996 56.323198399999995 38.9093152tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-43765232855995465412013-08-20T17:14:00.001-07:002013-08-20T17:35:33.453-07:00WHY THE AUGUST COUP? THE UNION TREATY WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN SIGNED TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO TODAY
DAY THREE OF
THE AUGUST COUP
Moscow, the USSR
August 20, 1991
NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV
President of Kazakhstan
Photographed in 1997
In office in 1991, and still in office today
From RUSSIA REDUX, Chapter Eight:
Gorbachev has described the coup plotters "as 'egotistical careerists' who decided to act PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7512419 37.618421755.1792854 36.327528199999996 56.323198399999995 38.9093152tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-83626295255281427942013-08-19T14:21:00.003-07:002013-08-19T15:54:04.498-07:00THE 1991 AUGUST COUP, DAY TWO
THE COUP BECOMES PUBLIC
THE TANKS ENTER MOSCOW
BORIS YELTSIN STANDS ON ONE
August 19, 1991
DMITRY YAZOV
SOVIET ARMY MARSHAL
USSR DEFENSE MINISTER, August 1991
Photographed in 2005, after his membership in the failed GKChP coup attempt led to eighteen months in prison, and after the Presidential (Putin) award of the Order of Merit,PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Cambridge, MA, USA42.3736158 -71.109733542.3266968 -71.1904145 42.420534800000006 -71.0290525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-2943632045442679932013-08-18T17:26:00.000-07:002013-08-18T17:33:11.582-07:00TWENTY-TWO YEARS AFTER THE FIRST DAY OF THE AUGUST COUP IN THE USSR
DAY ONE
GORBACHEV
IN FOROS
August 18, 1991
BORIS YELTSIN (l.) and
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV (r.)
Shake Hands at Yeltsin's First Inauguration
as Russia's First President
July 10, 1991
Some background to the coup that helped precipitate the breakup of the Soviet Union:
As of June 12, 1991, Russia had a popularly elected PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7512419 37.618421755.1792854 36.327528199999996 56.323198399999995 38.9093152tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-58606732352829206592013-08-17T13:01:00.000-07:002013-08-18T07:31:26.720-07:00JIANG ZEMIN IS EIGHTY-SEVEN; SEEN HERE WITH BORIS YELTSIN
JIANG ZEMIN
b. August 17, 1926
"POWER HUG"
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN &
CHINESE PRESIDENT JIANG ZEMIN
MEET & GREET
IN THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE
BEIJING, CHINA
November 10, 1997
"HERE BE GIANTS"
PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Beijing, China39.90403 116.4075259999999638.352877 113.82573899999996 41.455183 118.98931299999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-65274220376070752802013-08-15T17:54:00.000-07:002013-08-17T06:40:09.392-07:00BORIS YELTSIN IN THE NEWS TODAY
WHAT ELECTIONS
CAN BRING
BORIS YELTSIN VOTING
IN THE 1991 RUSSIAN
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
(the first)
Moscow, June 12, 1991
Pausing in casting his ballot to help
the photographers get their pictures
Yeltsin won
Today Boris Yeltsin is the news as a comparison point in a Forbes piece by Melik Kaylan on "Understanding Egypt":&PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7512419 37.618421755.1792854 36.327528199999996 56.323198399999995 38.9093152tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-78370263946681381272013-08-14T21:29:00.000-07:002013-08-18T07:21:31.237-07:00BORIS YELTSIN IN THE NEWS TODAY
BORIS YELTSIN
CHECKS IT OUT
BORIS YELTSIN INSPECTS THE BOOKS
Sakhalinskaya Oil Platform
Sea of Okhotsk, off the City of Okha
Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast', USSR
August 1990
From today's Washington Post obituary of Kongar-ol Ondar, a "master of throat singing" from the Russian republic of Tuva:
He mesmerized PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, 69449053.516666699999988 142.883333333.018023699999986 -78.425260699999967 74.015309699999989 4.1919273000000032tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-42316752644791329052013-08-05T20:02:00.000-07:002013-08-17T06:35:22.644-07:00SEVENTY YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF KURSK
A TURNING POINT
IN WORLD WAR II
A VETERAN OF THE BATTLE
OF THE KURSK SALIENT
at the 50th Anniversary
ORËL, RUSSIA
August 1993
The largest tank battle
PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Oryol, Oryol Oblast, Russia52.9704414 36.06501890000004152.817454399999995 35.742295400000039 53.1234284 36.387742400000043tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-90101976284352388312013-08-04T18:32:00.000-07:002013-08-16T11:23:59.638-07:00TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY, BORIS YELTSIN MADE A TRIP TO ORËL (ORYOL), RUSSIA
PRESIDENT YELTSIN
MAKES AN INSPECTION TRIP
AND COMMEMORATES
THE BATTLE OF KURSK
August 4, 1993
BORIS YELTSIN (center) WAVING TO THE
CITIZENS OF ORËL (ORYOL), RUSSIA
EMERGING FROM THE SECOND LIMOUSINE IS
YEGOR STROYEV, GOVERNOR OF ORËL
Among the issues of the day
The competition with Rutskoi and Khasbulatov
The PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Oryol, Oryol Oblast, Russia52.9704414 36.06501890000004152.817454399999995 35.742295400000039 53.1234284 36.387742400000043tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-55716728753055833032013-07-30T10:16:00.000-07:002013-08-29T13:39:58.388-07:00JULY 30, 1991: MARCHING TO THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION, TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO
A HANDSHAKE
ON THE WAY TO
THE END OF
THE SOVIET UNION
TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO
U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH MEETS
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN
IN YELTSIN'S NEW KREMLIN OFFICE
July 30, 1991
Story coming in RUSSIA REDUX, Ch. 4
"Russia Takes a President; the U.S. Takes Notice"
PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7512419 37.618421755.1792854 36.327528199999996 56.323198399999995 38.9093152tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-8690684403673204392013-07-10T11:35:00.000-07:002013-08-18T07:38:12.034-07:00BORIS YELTSIN INAUGURATED AS RUSSIA'S FIRST POPULARLY ELECTED PRESIDENT, TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO TODAY
THE FIRST INAUGURATION
OF THE FIRST
POPULARLY ELECTED
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
July 10, 1991
BORIS YELTSIN,
to the left of the photograph,
with the head of
the Russian parliament,
RUSLAN KHASBULATOV,
to his right,
stands during the ceremony
of his first inauguration
the personalized invitation
PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7512419 37.618421755.1792854 36.327528199999996 56.323198399999995 38.9093152tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-41491119740392858462013-05-29T20:36:00.000-07:002013-08-18T07:18:42.442-07:00BORIS YELTSIN BECOMES HEAD OF THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT, TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO
BORIS YELTSIN
ELECTED CHAIR OF
THE RUSSIAN CONGRESS
OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES
May 29, 1990
BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH YELTSIN
CHAIRING THE
RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF
PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES
Elected President of Russia
the following year
"Mikhail Gorbachev was literally up in the air at the moment of the election, on a ten-hour flightPICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7512419 37.618421755.1792854 36.327528199999996 56.323198399999995 38.9093152tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446523830421563979.post-56580477909557002222013-03-21T11:05:00.000-07:002013-08-18T07:20:15.207-07:00KLAVDIA YELTSIN (THE MOTHER OF BORIS YELTSIN) DIED TWENTY YEARS AGO
KLAVDIA YELTSIN
THE MOTHER
OF BORIS YELTSIN
d. March 21, 1993 (85 y. o.)
AT HOME IN SVERDLOVSK
(YEKATERINBURG), RUSSIA (USSR) 1991
HER SON, BORIS YELTSIN, WAS
THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA
PICTURE POLITICShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137939108362222899noreply@blogger.com0Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia56.8375237 60.60327180000001656.559398699999996 59.957824800000019 57.1156487 61.248718800000013