Cover of Newsweek April 1989 marking election of Yeltsin to the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union as the delegate from Moscow district with a hugely decisive 92% of the vote. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1931 – 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.

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