His creations were served to many world leaders including Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Vicente Fox, Nelson Mandela and Boris Yeltsin. Scheib left the White House in 2005 when Laura Bush let him go.

His predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, sometimes went a while without making public appearances due to his poor health. During the past week, his spokesman attempted to dispel the rumors. "No need to worry, everything is all right.

As the Cold War came to an end, and the Iron Curtain lifted, however, the first president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, put a stop the program. That was right when the project became public, with a photo of the Istrebitel Sputnik.

Thousands of people gather in Moscow on August 19, 1991, to support Boris Yeltsin, who had been recently elected President of Russia, the largest republic in the Soviet Union. (Dima Tanin/AFP/Getty Images)

In 1998, Boris Yeltsin attended their controversial burial in the St Peter and Paul Cathedral in St Petersburg, despite the Russian Orthodox Church expressing concern whether the remains had been accurately identified.

When Vladimir Putin was handed Russia's presidency by an ailing Boris Yeltsin in 2000, the country had few, if any, enemies.

Sergei Kovalev, human rights adviser to former Russian president Boris Yeltsin and one of Memorial's leaders, says there is nothing political about what the organization does. "Voicing my opinions is not political activity.

With Gorbachev under house arrest, then-president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin led the resistance to the coup.

When Putin was handed Russia's presidency by an ailing Boris Yeltsin in 2000, his country had few adversaries in the West, but he now treats all of us as would-be "subjugators" of Russia.

I first encountered Nemtsov in 1992 at a meeting with a World Bank delegation in his office in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, a few months after he had been appointed as provincial governor of that state by the new president, Boris Yeltsin.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin decided not to strike, but Cirincione writes, "senior military officials advised him that he had to launch."

Russian leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin encouraged both national self-determination and democracy. The EU added 10 east-central European countries in 2004 and 2007 and 80 million Europeans to its union of democratic nations.

Russia joined the club, creating the G8, in 1997 when Bill Clinton invited Boris Yeltsin as a way to foster democratic institutions and related behaviours in Russia, and to encourage the development of a Russian economy guided by these same values. 

Former president Boris Yeltsin made Russia a solid supporter of the Chinese regime on key political issues during former CCP leader Jiang Zemin's era.

When Vladimir Putin was appointed by Boris Yeltsin as the Prime Minister and declared to be his successor, people did not think highly of him.

Ukraine When Vladimir Putin was handed Russia's presidency by Boris Yeltsin in 2000, the country had few, if any, enemies.

The first president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, took a degree of action to purge Soviet ideology — laying off former Soviet civil servants, pulling down statues of Lenin and other communist leaders, and rebuilding Orthodox Christian churches

At the time, Boris Yeltsin and his coterie of cronies were giving liberalism a bad name, fascism was making a comeback after many decades of hibernation, and several political strongmen were contending for the honor of ruling Russia with an “iron fist

Gorbachev and Yeltsin faced off against one another in the 1996 election. Reuters contributed to this report.

Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin even signed an agreement with Russian president Boris Yeltsin, transferring more than one million square kilometers (over 386,000 square miles) of China’s northern territory to Russia.

The 2017 agreement had been signed with Boris Yeltsin in 1991.

The files were first declassified by the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin in 1992 and delivered to Poland. Before the communist regime began its wane, the issue was untouchable.

In 1992, Boris Yeltsin finally admitted that the massacre had been directly authorized by Joseph Stalin. Obviously this is a subject that the world needs to see—but it's one that deserves a better director than Andrzej Wajda.

The official mouthpiece of China's CCP government, The People's Daily, reported on Dec. 11, 1999, that Jiang Zemin and then-Russian leader Boris Yeltsin signed in Beijing three Sino-Russian border agreements.

At the funeral for Nicholas II held by Boris Yeltsin, Jiang Zemin, instead of lodging a complaint and protest as one might expect, tried to ingratiate himself with Yeltsin.

On December 9, 1999, former CCP General Secretary, Jiang Zemin, and the Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, signed an agreement regarding China and Russia’s border dispute. It was said China lost 1.5 million square kilometers of land in the agreement.

As the students were standing outside the Ritz Carlton, a trailer drove by with large photos of Jiang Zemin embracing former Russian President Boris Yeltsin on its sides.

It warned that if no decisive measures were taken to redress the situation, people like Boris Yeltsin would emerge within the party and the deaths of the party and the state would follow.

Investment Risks After the fall of Communism, Russia has increasingly marketed itself under Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin as a free economy friendly to foreign investment.

Yeltsin, signed the Narrative Protocol on Eastern and Western Sections of the China-Russia Boundary.The protocol gave more than 620,000 square miles of land to Russia.Jiang also agreed to give Russia the mouth of the Tumen River, cutting off northeast