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I will not step down, I will not resign, … I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.

Boris Yeltsin

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That’s my way to relax.
BORIS YELTSIN

Crazy Mad Tree
Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
BORIS YELTSIN

Ideas Sky Talking
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: “Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.
BORIS YELTSIN

Lying Principle Society
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
BORIS YELTSIN

Firsts Hammer Wall
We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
BORIS YELTSIN

Country Peace People Political Want
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
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Country Ideas People Territory World
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia’s history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
BORIS YELTSIN

Country Errors Mistakes People
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.
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Country Independence People Remember
We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
BORIS YELTSIN

Country People Work
We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it.
BORIS YELTSIN

Air Freedom Yoga
International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
BORIS YELTSIN

Challenges Country People Terrorism
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.
BORIS YELTSIN

Ask Forgive Past People
I will not step down, I will not resign, … I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.
BORIS YELTSIN

Office Running Years
One could see that what you are writing was that today’s meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
BORIS YELTSIN

President Time Writing
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
BORIS YELTSIN

Government Pairs Sock
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
BORIS YELTSIN

Flame Mean Men

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