People

What did Boris Yeltsin help found?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/did-boris-yeltsin-help-found-263697.html" >What did Boris Yeltsin help found?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

His successful opposition to the August Coup (1991) against Gorbachev shifted power to the reformers and republics, and Yeltsin helped found (Dec. 8, 1991) the Commonwealth of Independent States , ending attempts to preserve the Soviet Union.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What did Boris Yeltsin oppose? What was the August Coup? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Yeltsin out in front. (Boris Yeltsin, Russian election)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ...Russians to whom Boris Yeltsin has not promised...1 billion to help cover a government...printed to cover Mr Yeltsin's campaign...vain, and Mr Yeltsin emerges from...Public Opinion found 36% of voters...If Mr Yeltsin did opt for an energetic...
He who hesitates: Russia.(Boris Yeltsin; Russian presidential campaign)(Brief...
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ...year." So said Boris Yeltsin this week. Though...confirming a new-found alliance between...mayor and Mr Yeltsin, after years...partisan brief to help make arrangements...to work for a Yeltsin victory. Mr...right, as he did in 1991, he...
An open letter to Mikhail & Boris from Publius. (Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris...
Magazine article from: The New Leader ...democracy. Not only did I help make a revolution...army. Although we did get together now and...the same King, we did not form a United...Mikhail, and you, Boris--that's even...people would have found out what we were actually...
Yeltsin Claims Victory After Missile Attack on Chechens
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition ...were dying when Boris Yeltsin authorized a bloody...agencies, President Boris Yeltsin says the military...only 42 had been found alive and the rest...comrades. With their help, about 70 of the...if Russian troops did not pull back from...
Moles Wary of Clinton-Yeltsin Relationship
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered ...presidents Clinton and Yeltsin have found their way into...and Russia's Boris Yeltsin have more in common...the United States did would have a positive...commentary about Yeltsin's humiliating...Clinton Vows Help for Yeltsin...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.