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...accounts, Russian president Boris Yeltsin is on the mend. He was released from the hospital last week to continue his recovery from a bout of pneumonia at his dacha outside Moscow. Compared with the serious heart problems and the complex bypass surgery he endured last fall, his present illness seems minor...
...Yeltsin's current disability has thrown Russia into a state of paralysis and gloom even worse than that produced last fall when the extent of his heart problems became known...
MOSCOW: Through a long succession of sick days, Boris Yeltsin has definitely retained his sense of timing. Kremlin officials happily announced today that not only was the Russian president back in the Kremlin, but that Yeltsin would indeed keep this weekend's meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Moscow. Yeltsin, who turns 66 on Saturday, returned to work in Moscow for the first time since Jan. 18, ostensibly to meet with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and review government documents. But in what has become a symbolic gesture of declining value, the president's real purpose was to prove that...
HOSPITALIZED. BORIS YELTSIN, 65, Russian President who underwent quintuple-bypass surgery in November; in stable condition for treatment of pneumonia; in Moscow...
...Americans.What they consider unthinkable, not to say criminal, at home is just an innocent prank abroad." Nor does the operation likely come without a Kremlin stamp of approval. The Moscow mayor, while running the Russian capital like a personal fiefdom, also boasts a particularly chummy relationship with President Boris Yeltsin. Says Meier: "It looks like Giuliani got into more than he expected...