Boris Yeltsin was about to be elected president of the Russian Republic with an even more explicit repudiation of Soviet economics and politics than Gorbachev had espoused.

• 鲍里斯.；叶利钦即将当选为俄罗斯共和国的总统，他对苏联经济和政治模式持否定态度，虽然戈尔巴乔夫也是这个意思，但叶利钦表现得更加鲜明。