Yeltsinian adjective1 •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.It would be wholly misplaced to assess the Yeltsinian wager through the prism of our own Jeffersonian democracy. — 1992 formsmore Yeltsinian · most Yeltsinian