Boris Yeltsin Quotes


We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.


Citations

Yeltsin, Boris. Midnight Diaries. Translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, PublicAffairs, 2000.

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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
  • Born: February 1, 1931
  • Died: April 23, 2007
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Statesman

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian and former Soviet politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, he later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with conservatism and Russian nationalism.