More from Boris Yeltsin
- Appeal to citizens of Russia to oppose the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev. (19 August 1991)
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Boris Yeltsin on life and death
Statement to a Times reporter in 1990, as quoted in “The wit and wisdom of Boris” in Guardian Unlimited (23 April 2007)
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