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...BORIS YELTSIN Bold speeches, but scant funds for Sakhalin quake relief...
...past, the Serbs have been adept at backing off just enough from provocations to allow the situation to quiet down; and it is possible they might conclude that their increasingly brazen violations are exhausting the patience even of some of their friends. Notably, Russian President Boris Yeltsin expressed pro forma opposition to the air strikes but added that his government had warned the Serbs that they must stop violating agreements with the U.N. "They did not do this, so they got it," said Yeltsin...
...after he rudely rebuffed Japan's offer to send doctors to help in the Sakhalin Island earthquake, Boris Yeltsin issued an apologetic press release. The Russian President said today that he "regretted his emotional statement," and said the Russians would not reject any offer of aid. However, he still maintained that Russia could cope with the disaster...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin rudely rebuffed Japan's offer to send rescuers and doctors to aid victims of Sunday's 7.5 earthquake, calling the suggeston a ploy to "take advantage" of Russia's plight. "Russia itself can heal the wounds inflicted by the earthquake," Yeltsin added. If Russia accepted the aid, he said "They [the Japanese] will say: give us back the islands." That was a reference to a long-standing dispute between the two countries over control of the four southernmost islands of the Kurile chain, which were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World...
...after Ames identified him as a CIA source, the KGB took him into custody. He was sentenced to 15 years for high treason. On Feb. 7, 1992, after six years under harsh conditions in the Gulag, he was another of the 10 political prisoners released from Perm-35 under Yeltsin's amnesty. Gray-haired at 53, he now lives in northern California with his wife Nadia and daughter Olga...