It seemed the end of the Yeltsin era.
In the Yeltsin era of the 1990's, so much power passed into their hands that the word had fit them like a glove.
He and Ms. Chechenkova, who share a house, were not happy with the Yeltsin era.
During the Yeltsin era, when the country was ruled by a massively corrupt drunkard, Russia was a lawless place.
While the Yeltsin era may be drawing to a close, it is too soon to write the epitaph for Russian reform.
To him and his allies, the figures reflect the economic changes of the Yeltsin era.
Like most of the Russian military, the Strategic Rocket Forces have had limited access to resources for new equipment in the Yeltsin era.
We always had problems with that, in the Brezhnev era and in the Yeltsin era as well.
Putin's chief of staff and other holdovers from the early Yeltsin era quit in disgust or were quickly forced out.
And that is a disappointment for those who expected him to start off by taking a tough line against the favorites of the Yeltsin era.