WHAT ELECTIONS
CAN BRING
IN THE 1991 RUSSIAN
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
(the first)
Moscow, June 12, 1991
Pausing in casting his ballot to help
the photographers get their pictures
Yeltsin won
Today Boris Yeltsin is the news as a comparison point in a Forbes piece by Melik Kaylan on "Understanding Egypt":
"The last decade has introduced to the world the novel phenomenon of the genuinely re-elected dictator, the populist who gets successive mandates largely because he controls all information, much of the economy, starves opponents of funds, because he has delivered a measure of stability and because the alternative looks worse. The alternative might be what went before – Boris Yeltsin in Moscow...."Well....
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