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Boris Yeltsin didn't often speak with foreign journalists, and when he did, it was obvious he couldn't stand us.
Russian mourners bid farewell to Boris Yeltsin
"The end crowns all," William Shakespeare once wrote. On the face of it, Boris Yeltsin's end was fabulous: Some 20,000 ordinary people, most leading Russian dignitaries, many world leaders and senior statesmen that included two former U.S. Presidents flocked to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to pay...
Photo Essay: Boris Yeltsin 1931-2007 "But no, I don't recall anything heroic about him, because there has never been any heroism. Not even when he climbed that tank in Moscow in August 1991 to thwart the hard-liners' putsch. There has been an enormous and stunning political intuition and cunning...