Yeltsin, Boris

November 1989 heard U. S. President Reagan challenge the Soviet Union Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Reagan, 1987). At the end of the 1980s, the remaining days of the Soviet Union were numbered, and despite a failed coup, on Christinas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin for the final time. Boris Yeltsin presided over the new Russia, and the man with whom Thatcher could do business [with] retired. 

GLONASS is the Russian parallel to GPS and has its origins in the mid-1970s in the former Soviet Union. Like GPS, the system has been primarily developed to support the military, but in recent years has been broadened to include civihan users. In September 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin officially proclaimed GLONASS to be an operational system and the basic unit of the Russian Radionavigation Plan. The well-publicized poHtical, economic, and military uncertainties within Russia have undoubtedly hampered the... 

In 1992, the then President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, finally admitted that the source of the Sverdlovsk epidemic had been an accidental release of anthrax spores from a military BW facility. But already by 1986, responding to pressure from the Second Review Conference of the BTWC, the Soviets began to convert its military BW facilities to produce legitimate products for the national civilian economy. 

August Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. 1991 December The Soviet Union is dissolved. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of the Russian Federation. 

CONVENTIONAL COMMITTEE. Russian Federation president Boris N. Yeltsin issued Presidential Decree No. 160, dated 19 February 1992, establishing the Presidential Committee on Problems of... 

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