Boris Yeltsin

The big war that was call the arm race was going on for a long period. In the arm race is bombs fight, revenges, and making superpower weapon. Back in the Arm race war every country was going against each other trying to declare the war. As the war was going on, some country was building bomb, and big weapon. Then the U.S decide to make a bomb to drop on japan to end them off in the war with them. In 1941 the U.S. was on pearl harbor, then Jjapan sent air force strike on the harbor, and kill…

The Cold War was a hostile rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. It lasted from the late 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The war was "cold" only in that the United States and USSR never fought each other in a direct military confrontation, but both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in "proxy wars" by supporting allied nations in numerous "hot" wars in places like Korean, Vietnam, and Angola. The Cold…

In the aftermath of the First World War, the victors imposed upon defeated Germany all the long-sought dreams of the Western liberal nations. The German Empire’s armaments, armies, planes, and sea-power were unceremoniously thrown on the chopping block. A new democratic constitution was given to them at Weimar and the Emperor was driven out while nonentities were elected in his place. Beneath the fragile veneer of a new democratic order raged the fury of the still mighty yet defeated German…

Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, once said “it is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts” (“Boris Yeltsin Quotes.”). Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, takes place in a futuristic society called the World State. Each person’s fate is in the hands of The Hatchery.…

Russia is in a strategic location and borders 14 other countries, which include but are not limited to China, Mongolia, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, and Poland. There are many bodies of water that surround Russia, which include, Sea of Japan, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Sea of Okhotsk. The Russian terrain consists…

At first Russia had been successful with having a Tsar rule, but that soon turned into communist being in power. Then Russia had been a part of the Soviet Union. Although achieving many goals, the Soviet Union soon fell, and Russia elected Boris Yeltsin as president. He had done what he could to achieve the goals that the former Soviet Union couldn’t achieve, but even achieving greatness led him to drink heavily. Which led to the end of his term in office. Finally, Vladimir Putin was put the…

In the 1990s, there were two presidents; George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. George H. W. Bush was elected once and Bill Clinton was elected twice but was later impeached. There were also two vice presidents in that decade; Al Gore and Dan Quayle. Ten years ago, Al Gore claimed that the Earth would be in “a true planetary emergency”, but the Earth is doing just fine today. James Addison Baker, Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger, Warren Minor Christopher, and Madeleine Korbel Albright all served as…

country can define how your country is going to defend itself in a major was with someone else, that’ll probably know all your tricks and get you from behind. President Boris Yeltsin proposing for a better army, “restore the prestige” (Yeltsin) and “You are tired of hardships” are the main reasons for change in his country. Yeltsin is defending himself because of the allegations he’s said “ruining both the army and Russia itself,” the officers plead to organize in the pursuit of legal rights.…

Macbeth and Putin: Rushin’ into Power Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Macbeth both held or hold a very high amount of power. Both are ruthless leaders willing to do whatever it takes to gain control and hold on to it, even murder. Shakespeare’s Macbeth starts out as a noble military man, regarded as courageous by many. Similarly, Putin started out in the KGB, which is associated with the Russian military. Macbeth and Putin both display how gaining a high position of power quickly and…

The country of Russia, located in Eastern Europe, is notorious for the recent government-citizen protests, teas, matryoshka dolls, babushkas in their headscarves, the Red Army Choir and the Soviet Union. It is home to political figures like Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin as well as historical figures like Ivan the Terrible, Grigori Rasputin and the Romanov family. When people hear the words Russian food, not much can be said. Russian food is not as wide spread in the west…