A Pulitzer-Prize-winning photograph shows this person dancing at a rock concert during his “vote or lose” campaign. The chair of Sibneft was recognized as one of the “Seven Bankers” who supported this person after this person implemented the loans-for-shares scheme. Robert Solow and Franco Modigliani were two of several economists who wrote an open letter to this person about reforms that were championed by Anatoly Chubais (“choo-BICE”). This non-Polish politician’s visit to a Randalls grocery store in Houston may have inspired him to implement “shock therapy” in his country. This person helped diffuse the August Coup by giving a speech atop a tank. For 10 points, what politician served as the first President of Russia? ■END■
ANSWER: Boris Yeltsin [or Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin]
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