GEORGE BUSH & BORIS YELTSIN & RUSSIA DAY

GEORGE BUSH &

BORIS YELTSIN &

RUSSIA DAY

GEORGE BUSH & BORIS YELTSIN

outside the newly elected

First President of Russia's

new Kremlin office,

July 30, 1991

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, formerly known simply as 

GEORGE BUSH, 41st president of the United States, was born on 

June 12, 1924.

"RUSSIA DAY" was proclaimed in honor of the declaration of Russian 

sovereignty, June 12, 1990, while the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist 

Republic was still part of the USSR.

One year later to the day, June 12, 1991, Russia held its first election 

for president, and Boris Yeltsin won. By the end of the year, the Soviet 

Union was no more.

Subjecting himself to a popular election (unlike Mikhail Gorbachev) won 

Yeltsin a meeting with U.S. President George Bush in the U.S. nine days 

later, and then, on July 30, a courtesy call by President on President 

Yeltsin in his new Kremlin office.

The rest of the story is coming in RUSSIA REDUX.