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MOSCOW: Perceptions are as important as reality in Russia's volatile politics. Which is probably why video images of President Boris Yeltsin riding a snowmobile and chatting about fishing were released yesterday by the Kremlin...
...Either way, expect more home videos from the Kremlin: "He was shown on TV today meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Nemtsov," says Meier, "but they were filmed from a great distance." The wide-angle, of course, would avoid the perception created by yesterday's video among some Muscovites that Yeltsin was unable to recognize his wife and daughter...
...Kremlin Cup, SCBS...
...KREMLIN: On Dec. 19, Moscow reported that Boris Yeltsin was undergoing a normal follow-up to his 1996 heart-bypass surgery. In fact, he underwent a sophisticated new heart scan called a C.T.-angiography, a painless, noninvasive test less risky than a conventional angiogram, and which can be performed only with a scanner created by Imatron, a San Francisco-based company. Radiologists at the Moscow Cardiology Center had just begun learning to use the machine when Imatron began getting E-mails from them: They wanted to use the scanner ? which can tell if a bypass graft has closed...
...cosmonaut-training center outside Moscow. The competition to join him aloft promises to be stiff. Slovak, French and Indonesian astronauts, as well as a CNN correspondent, have already put in bids. Why would Baturin risk his life in space? Simple: his sojourn is the best Mir advertisement the Kremlin could devise...