At the November meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Clinton pointed his finger at Yeltsin and demanded he halt bombing attacks that had resulted in many civilian casualties. Yeltsin immediately left the conference. [146] Yeltsin with Patriarch Alexy II and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), the first President of the Russian Federation, lost two fingers when he was a teenager. There’s no mystery to how it happened: Yeltsin wrote about it in his ...

2022年3月22日 · Yeltsin wound up losing his left thumb and index finger, and the injury prevented Yeltsin from serving in the military once he came of age. For the rest of his life, Yeltsin preferred to stand in ways that allowed him to hide his disfigured hand. It's pretty normal for many children (and adults) to see a device and wonder how it works.

1989年9月12日 · His left hand is missing its thumb and forefinger: When he was 11, during World War II, Yeltsin sneaked into an arms storehouse with two pals and stole a couple of hand grenades. One of the...

2009年11月9日 · Rebellious even as a youth, Yeltsin lost two fingers while playing with a hand grenade. He left Berezniki for Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in 1949 to attend the Urals Polytechnic Institute.

Yeltsin left a freer world, playing a pivotal role in the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet underdelivered on many of the promises of economic prosperity he made to the Russian people. His presidency was characterised by Russia’s move to a free-market economy, conflicts in Chechnya and his own recurring health struggles.

1993年9月23日 · Twenty-four hours after his bombshell announcement, Yeltsin had managed to keep the Cabinet firmly in hand, with the resignation of only the top official for foreign trade and the leadership of...

To this day, he conceals his injury — two fingers are missing — by means of strategic placement of his left hand. As he entered adulthood, Yeltsin’s most distinctive trait was an ...

2007年4月24日 · But in 1994, a group of Yeltsin’s hard-line advisors decided the conflict was getting out of hand. That fall, Yeltsin approved a covert operation designed to topple the Chechen independence...

At first, the coaches of the Institute's volleyball team were reluctant to draft Yeltsin because of his mutilated left hand. After they relented, he rapidly became the captain. Soon,...