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The 34 pages that link to Boris Yeltsin, each with the reason it gives.

• Soviet UnionRelated: His rivalry with Gorbachev and leadership of Russia weakened central Soviet authority.

• Dissolution of the Soviet UnionRelated: He challenged Soviet authority from the Russian republic and signed the Belavezha Accords.

• Vladimir PutinRelated: Yeltsin appointed Putin prime minister and named him acting president upon resigning.

• Mikhail GorbachevCompared with: His rivalry with Gorbachev shifted political authority from the Soviet center to Russia.

• Russian Soviet Federative Socialist RepublicRelated: His presidency asserted Russian sovereignty and carried the republic into independence.

• First Chechen WarRelated: His decision to use force made the conflict a defining test of post-Soviet Russia.

• 1993 Russian constitutional crisisRelated: His effort to strengthen the presidency brought him into conflict with the legislature.

• Constitution of RussiaRelated: Yeltsin backed the draft and submitted it to the 1993 nationwide vote.

• Nursultan NazarbayevCompared with: Yeltsin’s turbulent transfer of power contrasts with Nazarbayev’s controlled succession process.

• Dmitry MedvedevCompared with: Yeltsin’s presidency established the office Medvedev later held in a different political system.

• Dzhokhar DudayevRelated: As Russian president, Yeltsin opposed Chechen secession and sent forces into the republic in 1994.

• Russian privatizationRelated: Yeltsin’s administrations authorized and politically sustained the privatization program.

• State DumaRelated: His confrontation with the legislature in 1993 preceded the Duma’s current constitutional form.

• Aslan MaskhadovRelated: Yeltsin’s government signed the 1996 peace accord with Maskhadov’s administration.

• August CoupRelated: He denounced the coup and mobilized resistance from Moscow’s Russian White House.

• Budapest MemorandumRelated: Yeltsin signed the memorandum for Russia.

• Boutros Boutros-GhaliRelated: Russia's role as a Security Council power mattered in the politics of his reappointment.

• Leonid KravchukRelated: Yeltsin negotiated with Kravchuk over the Soviet Union’s dissolution and the division of post-Soviet assets.

• Viktor ChernomyrdinRelated: Yeltsin appointed Chernomyrdin prime minister and relied on him during Russia’s early post-Soviet transition.

• Vladislav ArdzinbaRelated: As Russian president, he was central to the mediation surrounding the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict.

• 1998 Russian financial crisisRelated: Yeltsin’s government faced the crisis and announced the measures that triggered the default.

• Jeffrey SachsRelated: Sachs advised Russian officials during the early post-Soviet economic transition under Yeltsin.

• Yegor GaidarRelated: Yeltsin appointed Gaidar to lead the government and backed his early market reforms.

• Anti-SovietismRelated: His political challenge helped weaken the Soviet center during the Union's final years.

• Boris NemtsovRelated: Yeltsin appointed Nemtsov governor of Nizhny Novgorod and brought him into the federal government.

• Lyudmila UlitskayaRelated: Ulitskaya’s public criticism of Russian political developments places her career in the post-Soviet civic landscape.

• Politics of RussiaRelated: His presidency oversaw the transition from Soviet rule and the adoption of the 1993 constitution.

• 1991 Soviet coup attemptRelated: He denounced the coup and rallied resistance from the Russian parliament building.

• Gherman TitovRelated: Yeltsin’s government awarded Titov Russia’s highest state honor in 1992.

• PutinismRelated: His departure brought Putin to the presidency and linked the new order to a reaction against the 1990s.

• Russian constitutional crisisRelated: His effort to dissolve parliament set the conflict in motion.

• Sergey LavrovRelated: Lavrov entered senior diplomatic service during Yeltsin’s presidency.

• Transnistrian WarRelated: Russia’s president, he signed the ceasefire agreement alongside Moldova’s president.

• Yuri LevadaRelated: Levada’s center tracked opinion during the turbulent political era of Yeltsin’s presidency.