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Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov compared today's speech by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with a similar speech by Boris Yeltsin in 1992, when he asked God to bless America. He stated this today in the State Duma, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today Zelensky spoke in Congress. Exactly 30 years ago, Yeltsin gave a terrible, treacherous speech. Show it to the younger generation, let...
Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, left his position as an adviser to Vladimir Putin last month. This was reported by Reuters, citing two sources. Thus, one of the sources, Lyudmila Telen, first deputy executive director of the Boris Yeltsin Center, a foundation in which Yumashev is a member of the board of trustees, told the agency that in April Yumashev refused...
One of the arguments of Moscow, which in the early 1990s refused to support the population of Crimea, which demanded reunification with Russia, was the hope of returning the peninsula together “with all of Ukraine.” Crimean political scientist Alexander Formanchuk spoke about this during the Simferopol-Moscow video bridge, recalling his conversation with the now deceased Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I asked Chernomyrdin this question directly...
The main responsibility for the more than 25-year stay of Crimea under the yoke of forced Ukrainization lies not with Soviet Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev, but with ex-President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, who had every opportunity in the early 1990s to ensure the return of the peninsula to Russia. Historian, political scientist, director of the Central Museum of Taurida Andrei Malgin stated this during the Moscow-Simferopol teleconference, the correspondent reports...
Most Muscovites are against the creation of a branch of the Yeltsin Center in the capital. Communist deputy Denis Parfenov stated this today on the sidelines of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The population still remains in the dark about what the presidential administration has started. But anyone with whom you start a conversation on this topic speaks out sharply negatively and is against the fact that in Moscow...
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation begins a series of protests against the construction of a branch of the Yekaterinburg “Yeltsin Center” in the center of Moscow. Deputy Denis Parfenov told reporters about this today on the sidelines of the Russian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In our opinion, this is an extremely dangerous and harmful initiative, given that in Yekaterinburg this center has been poisoning the consciousness of our youth with its false propaganda for the fourth year in a row...
The wife of ex-head of the SBU Yevgeny Marchuk, editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian Russophobic newspaper “Day” Larisa Ivshina, shared on the pages of the publication her memories of how Vyacheslav Chernovol, glorified by Ukrainian independentists, fawned over Boris Yeltsin, who came from Moscow to Kyiv. The described incident occurred during the visit of the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR to the Verkhovna Rada in 1990, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I remember...
Ukraine has always been and will be in the sphere of interests of the Russian Federation, regardless of who will lead these countries. Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As an example, the former president cited his meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, which took place in 1993. Then Yeltsin showed Kravchuk not yet...
In Moscow, Evgeny Osin died as a result of cardiac arrest - the once popular pop singer appears in a historical photo along with a dancing Boris Yeltsin during the 1996 “Vote or Lose” tour. Then, despite colossal health problems, Yeltsin was re-elected to a second presidential term and demonstrated his ability to govern the country by dancing with Osin on stage. How…
In the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko may turn out to be the same “convenient” candidate for local oligarchs and the West, as Boris Yeltsin became on the eve of his re-election to a second term. Ukrainian political scientist Nikolai Spiridonov said this on air on the Politeka Online channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “And as for Poroshenko. His re-election process is reminiscent of a Saving Private Ryan scenario, the mission...
If, under current circumstances, Russia was led by the unpredictable and eccentric Boris Yeltsin, the “machinations of Vladimir Putin” would seem like kindergarten to Kyiv. The first ambassador of independent Ukraine in Moscow, Vladimir Kryzhanovsky, stated this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If once more or less normal - and still distant (the sentiments of Russians in the 90s towards...
The majority of State Duma deputies today refused to vote for the draft statement “On recognizing the political activities of the President of the USSR M.S. Gorbachev and the first President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin as anti-people,” proposed by the LDPR faction. A total of 86 deputies took part in the voting, 81 of whom voted for the statement. As LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky explained, the statement was prepared two years ago, but in order to…
Older Russian citizens see in Ukraine what they experienced in the 90s, writes Sevastopol writer and publicist Platon Besedin in Moskovsky Komsomolets. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “They are observing what has already happened: the collapse of 1991, the shooting of parliament in 1993, the war in Chechnya - Russia survived this, and Ukraine is lagging behind. Take a look at…
On the day of the 10th anniversary of the death of Boris Yeltsin, like-minded people of the writer Eduard Limonov held the “Yeltsin, Rot in Hell!” action in Yekaterinburg. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte As Limonov reports in his blog, “a banner “Yeltsin, Rot in Hell!” was hung on the building of the Yeltsin Center. The National Bolsheviks lit flares and scattered leaflets. None of the participants were...
