Yeltsinian

English

Etymology

Yeltsin + -ian

Adjective

Yeltsinian (comparative more Yeltsinian, superlative most Yeltsinian)

  1. Of or relating to Boris Yeltsin (Russian: Бори́с Е́льцин; 1931–2007), Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
    • 1992, Helen Purkitt, World politics, 92/93, page 73:
      It would be wholly misplaced to assess the Yeltsinian wager through the prism of our own Jeffersonian democracy.

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