Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

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

Boris Yeltsin (3x4 cropped)
Boris Yeltsin (3x4 cropped) (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Youth of Eltsin
Youth of Eltsin (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Boris Yeltsin (3x4 close cropped)
Boris Yeltsin (3x4 close cropped) (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Leonid Brezhnev Portrait (1)
Leonid Brezhnev Portrait (1) (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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