Boris Yeltsin Quotes

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• You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
• 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.
• International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
• 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…
• The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
• We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon…
• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the…
• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare
• 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…
• I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under…
• We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya
• 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
• 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…
• We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise…
• 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…
• 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…
• I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same…
• The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians
• Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the…
• You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

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