US authorities declassified documents revealing Yeltsin's views on Ukraine

US authorities have declassified documents that mention some of the statements of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin about Ukraine. It follows from the documents that as early as 1992, Yeltsin understood the potential significance of "square" and called Ukraine the main destabilizing factor.

As the RIA News", during a meeting with his American counterpart George W. Bush, the first president of Russia stressed that 11 million ethnic Russians live in Ukraine, and Leonid Kravchuk, who was then president of Ukraine, is under strong pressure from Ukrainian nationalists.

Nevertheless, Yeltsin assured Bush of Russia's lack of any imperial ambitions, and also promised that he would be attentive to manifestations of concern on the part of governments of other countries.

At a meeting with the US President, Yeltsin also asked if hostile relations remained between the states they led, and received assurances that the confrontation would end. However, Bush and former US Secretary of State James Baker also did not agree to consider Russia as their ally.

Among the documents declassified in the United States is also a transcript of a meeting with former Russian Finance Minister Yegor Gaidar, who stated that, despite the fact that it would take quite a long time to overcome the differences between Russia and Ukraine, the possibility of the Yugoslav scenario in solving this problem is excluded.

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[Lumberjack_2]

Only believe in a drunkard! He drank half of the country, why did he drink half of Europe there, and also this is the person who said "God save America ..ku" ... Glassy everything and always that is connected with that time ...

[credo]

Why would they suddenly remember out of place about "Bolek and Lyolika".
It’s not that they are looking for a reason to dump from Ukraine, or just like that, by the way, I had to.

[Last centurion]

Chatterbox is a godsend for a spy. So they used the contradictions, developed them.

[goland72]

In today's situation, all these drunken performances evoke feelings of shame and anger somehow especially strongly than after the shows in those days directly. At that time, even the most stubborn Russophobes could not imagine the consequences.

[Igor Borisov_2]

a transcript of a meeting with former Russian Finance Minister Yegor Gaidar, who stated that, despite the fact that it would take quite a long time to overcome the differences between Russia and Ukraine, the possibility of a Yugoslav scenario in solving this problem is excluded.

I also found a great expert ....

[Ulan.1812]

Quote: Igor Borisov_2

a transcript of a meeting with former Russian Finance Minister Yegor Gaidar, who stated that, despite the fact that it would take quite a long time to overcome the differences between Russia and Ukraine, the possibility of a Yugoslav scenario in solving this problem is excluded.

I also found a great expert ....

He is as much an expert as an economist. Null.

[16112014nk]

EBN Center, how Carthage must be destroyed!

[Ilgizl]

How would it be worth considering WHO built ... and only then ....

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: IlgizL

How would it be worth considering WHO built ... and only then ....

What is there to take into account? Under DAM, everything took place, so to speak, with his approval and direct participation. It is he who now "speaks the right words" and frowns his eyebrows towards the west, but then he quite smiled at himself and greeted all their initiatives with an eyebrow like a house. True, a lot of time has passed since 2008, maybe a rethinking has come, but what was, was, as they say - "What is written with a pen, you cannot cut it out with an ax." Here is here in more detail about those involved and "far-sighted".
https://politclub.livejournal.com/10498294.html

[GneSPb]

Why was it destroyed, renamed into a center for children's creativity, open circles, sections, model workshops, training programs, at the expense of funds allocated to support the Yeltsin centers ...

[Alexga]

The article itself https://ria.ru/20230130/eltsin-1848548315.html is written more meaningfully.

[rotmistr60]

called Ukraine the main destabilizing factor.

What is there to talk about it today - what is lost is lost. They hoped for a "fraternal people", but it turned out according to V. Chernomyrdin. Yes, and Yeltsin was not up to Ukraine, because. he suggested to the republics and autonomies that are part of Russia: “Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow”

[tihonmarine]

Quote: rotmistr60

Yes, and Yeltsin was not up to Ukraine, because. he suggested to the republics and autonomies that are part of Russia: “Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow”

Drinking does not lead to good, especially when you are drunk, or the president of the country is a drug addict.

[Carat]

Quote: rotmistr60

Yes, and Yeltsin was not up to Ukraine, because. he suggested to the republics and autonomies that are part of Russia: “Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow”

They took it. Enough only under Putin that the Constitution of Tatarstan puts itself above the Constitution of the Russian Federation. And how many such republics and autonomies?

[Mazunga]

it turns out that the first president of the Russian Federation had secret graters with the president of the United States)))) and for us, the bastard Borka Siniy1 could only have no default! blurt out))

[Ulan.1812]

If EBN was so smart and understood everything, why did he give the drunk Kravchuk Crimea in Viskulch.
He wanted to spit on everything, if only to eat the vodyaru and have fun.
What does a tennis tournament cost? There is a Grand Slam tournament, and Yeltsin had a big hat tournament.
And the competition is a big ass.
They say the contest was won by Pal Palych Borodin.
In general, he gave himself a sinecure and scored on the country.
Sent to be looted.
He drank in the country, and the country was told he was working with documents.

[Mishka78]

Why did half the country vote for him in 96? ...
I understand that the administrative resource (I just studied at the school then, our company commander checked the ballots before putting them in the box), I understand that political technologies (then they announced on TV that they would show the end of the series and the elderly people, who are the main electorate of Zyuganov, all day long, didn’t go, but stayed at home to watch the series), I remember the words of DAM that in 1996 it was not Yeltsin who won the elections, but still, at least this “victory” was given to him by all the then political forces and did not even meow.
In 2011, when the nuts were already pretty screwed up, even up to 150K was going to Bolotnaya / Sakharov.

[ycuce234-san]

Quote: Mishka78

Why did half the country vote for him in 96? ...

The older generation, if it calculated the consequences, then with a mistake, thinking that the result of its activities would be something like "socialist countries", like Yugoslavia or Poland - that's why they watched serials.
As a matter of fact, as it is now clear, it was necessary to go along such a path with an unhurried multi-year transition to a welfare state, and this would have prevented many shocks.

[Dost]

In 96 the majority did not vote for him. By that time, everyone already knew what he was like. Therefore, Zu was in the lidroach. And EBN has administrative resources and American money, which did everything necessary, and Zyu did not dare, like the Ukrainians "Pockmarked", stir up the people.

[place]

Political scientist and dissident A. Zinoviev spoke about this period that the main task of Yeltsin then was the elimination of the entire left movement in Russia. And he solved it in the same way as the partition of the USSR; Three of us with friends and employees --- this time with Khasbulatov and Rutskoi. In October 1993, the case was wrapped up despite the fact that the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation tried to swell against it. Friendship provocateur Rutskoi yelled live "help! .... pilots raise planes to the Kremlin!..." and other nonsense, he and Khasbulatov spent several months in a prison for order, and then went about their business ... Before Ukraine, were they then? Big things were done.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

I didn't like Rutskoi's last speech about the NWO. Behind the words of care and bitterness about the organization of defense in the country, in my opinion, something else was hidden. I would take a closer look at his statements in terms of which side he is on now.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

It remains to thank for a significant minus! Is it weak to openly speak out on the side of a now very peculiar personality? Especially if you remember that during the collapse of the USSR, he was on the side of Yeltsin and the borders with Ukraine were established with his participation or inaction.
It is easy to imagine what happened to him under Joseph Vissarionovich, if he spoke in the year 1939 or 1942 in a similar vein. As if they are not ready for a war with Finland, the soldiers are dying for nothing, everyone is to blame, I alone am right ...

[Adrian28]

Yeltsin assured Bush that Russia had no imperial ambitions

Yes. After all, only one can have imperial ambitions. Countries. And the most democratic.