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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

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

Country Peace People Political Want
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 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
International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
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Challenges Country People Terrorism
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.
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Firsts Hammer Wall
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
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Action Issues Killing
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country… They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
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Clouds Country Night
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.
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Country Errors Mistakes People
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 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
We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.
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Country Living People Ready
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.
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Air Freedom Yoga
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 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
I understand that it’s hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions… we’ll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we’ll have to work on overcoming it.
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Giving Overcoming Work
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
BORIS YELTSIN

Government Pairs Sock

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.

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