Andrei Bogdanov: "We decided that Yeltsin could be trusted"
April 3, 2007 as a result of sudden cardiac arrest died the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin. His condolences to the family, relatives and friends of the first President of Russia expressed chairman of the Democratic Party of Russia Andrei Bogdanov. "On behalf of the Democratic Party of Russia to express condolences to relatives and friends of Boris Nikolayevich. Remember and grieve with you" - he said.
As said in the press service of the DWP report, "History and Development Democratic Party of Russia took shape is inseparable from the history of the first President of our country." "I remember in 1991 our party first supported the nomination of Boris Yeltsin in the presidential election. It was understood that Russia must build a new, and we then decided that this man can be trusted with the country at such a crucial moment," - recalls Andrei Bogdanov.
"Since our country is to live a separate life, the whole historical period. Of course, everything went wrong, as we had expected while, in the distant 1991. Much was made mistakes, largely untapped, much failed the test practice.
The final outcome of a bygone era yet to take historians. We, as contemporaries can not yet give a final assessment. One thing is clear: it is the coming to power of Boris Nikolayevich, our country got a chance to civilized development, the chance to become a truly great country, a full participant in the global community; chance? C unthinkable without the country's democratic transformation. BN Yeltsin, a tough mission, a mission that could only endure Personality. Our first President it was. It is an indisputable fact, "- he stressed.
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