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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...
...Kremlin leaders have their dachas within the same compound. The most prominent dachnik, Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, has a weekend getaway spot near Barvikha, where he entertained Richard Nixon during the Moscow summit meetings. Former President Anastas Mikoyan has retired to Zubalovo, an estate surrounding a manor house decorated with marble statues, tapestries and stained glass. In czarist times it belonged to an oil millionaire; Joseph Stalin later expropriated the estate and included one of its mansions among his nine dachas around Moscow and in his native Georgia...