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A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

Boris Yeltsin

Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country… They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
BORIS YELTSIN

Clouds Country Night
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
We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
BORIS YELTSIN

Country Peace People Political Want
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
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
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state – a new idea, this – even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
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Affairs Country Ideas People Rights
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.
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Lying Principle Society
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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Courage Inspirational Thinking
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
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.
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Country People Population
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
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
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
BORIS YELTSIN

Money Temptation Tests
International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
BORIS YELTSIN

Challenges Country People Terrorism
We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.
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Country Living People Ready
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

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

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