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Grigory Yavlinsky ran against Boris Yeltsin in the 1996 Russian presidential election. Yavlinsky was a prominent Russian economist and politician who had previously served as the Minister of Finance under Boris Yeltsin. He was the leader of the Yabloko party, which was a liberal opposition party. In the 1996 election, Yavlinsky received 5.8% of the vote, finishing third behind Yeltsin and Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov.