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Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Royal United Services Institute - The Legacy of Boris Yeltsin. Sep 22, 2026
Anniversary information added. Apr 19, 2026
Add new Web site: CBS News - Yeltsin: A Man of Contradictions. Apr 14, 2026
Add new Web site: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Remembering Boris Yeltsin; French Presidential Election. Mar 05, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 28, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation. Dec 13, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - Timeline: Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - The Boris Yeltsin of History (PDF). Mar 17, 2025
Add new Web site: Presidential Library - Birthday anniversary of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, the first Russian president. Oct 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Royal United Services Institute - The Legacy of Boris Yeltsin. Jun 27, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - The Boris Yeltsin of History (PDF). Nov 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Wilson Center Digital Archive - Boris Yeltsin. Apr 04, 2023
Media added. Apr 05, 2018
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Boris N. Yeltsin, Reformer Who Broke Up the U.S.S.R., Dies at 76. Dec 23, 2016
Add new Web site: Russia-InfoCentre - Biography of Boris Yeltsin. Dec 23, 2016
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Obituary of Boris Yeltsin. Dec 23, 2016
Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Boris Yeltsin. Feb 21, 2013
Add new Web site: The Cold War Museum - Biography of Boris Yeltsin. Feb 21, 2013
Media added. Aug 08, 2008
Article revised and updated. Apr 23, 2007
Added new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Biography of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin. Jun 13, 2006
Article revised. Mar 29, 2006
Article revised. Feb 10, 2000
Article revised. Jan 12, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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