Word: barvikha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well before sunrise on Tuesday morning, a high-speed convoy of government vehicles made the short drive from Boris Yeltsin's luxurious sanatorium in the village of Barvikha to the heart center on the edge of Moscow. The patient was in a good mood, his spokesman reported later, and joked with the doctors. After two months of waiting, wild rumors and some nasty Kremlin infighting, the Russian President's heart-bypass operation--a procedure as crucial politically as it was medically--had finally become a reality. At 2 p.m., after seven hours in the operating room, during which Yeltsin...
Having logged two weeks at a Moscow hospital after a bout of heart trouble,Russian President Boris Yeltsinis now ready for some serious rest. Today, the 64-year-old President left his suite for the sprawling Barvikha resort west of the capital, where he'll remain for an indefinite period under his doctors' supervision. The rest of the world, already suspicious after the Kremlin was caught releasing a 3-month-old photo of Yeltsin, has little else to go on. Russian television today simply showed Yeltsin receiving a bunch of flowers inside the Central Clinical Hospital, then his motorcade speeding...