“You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.”

Boris Yeltsin (1931 to 2007)

Boris Yeltsin, in full Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, was a Russian politician who became president of Russia in 1990.

In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country’s history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching until his resignation on the eve of 2000.