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Saturday, June 12, 2010

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.

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