Boris Yeltsin

2000: Newspapers about President Yeltsin's departure on New Year's Eve and Putin's coming to power: "Gone are the "deficit" queue, centralization of everything and everything, censorship. The war in Chechnya, the gloomy poverty of tens of millions of Russians, is a severe reproach. Yeltsin couldn't help but know the large-scale plundering of the country, corruption, and the splicing of power with crime. Not only the ordinary masses, but also supporters of pro-Western reforms, turned their backs on the "guarantor of the Constitution". The main rulers of the country under the eternally ill Yeltsin were "Family", "oligarchs" and major bankers. 2006: in the Kremlin in honor of the 75th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian President B. Yeltsin. February 1, a gala reception was held in the Kremlin to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the birth of Yeltsin's first President of Russia, where the highest Russian elite gathered and former leaders of some countries arrived. The head of state assessed Yeltsin's activity in the following way: "he gave freedom..." and the Kremlin-controlled media cautiously assess the activity of the first Russian president: neither a destroyer nor a creator.