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...doing what he was told rather than by distinguishing himself. He?s awkward in public and extremely reluctant to talk to the media. And he studiously maintained a low profile until last August, when he seemed to appear from nowhere to be named Yeltsin?s heir...
...figure Anatoly Shobchak, who in 1991 became the city?s mayor and appointed Putin to various key administrative posts. Having proved himself a capable manager in St. Petersburg (Leningrad?s original name, restored after the collapse of communism), he was brought to Moscow in 1996 to serve on Boris Yeltsin?s presidential staff. Two years later, Yeltsin appointed Putin head of the FSB, the KGB?s successor organization, and last year he assumed control of the coordinating body of all of Russia?s security and intelligence ministries before being named Prime Minister...
...BORIS YELTSIN Gets immunity, leaves thankless job and, best of all, no longer needs to hide Stoli flask...
...turned out, the most dramatic incident, indeed a historic one, was unexpected: the resignation on the morning of Dec. 31 of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Our Moscow bureau quickly supplied reporting, and managing editor Walter Isaacson asked for an assessment of Yeltsin from the White House, which the President provided virtually overnight in an essay that appears on page...
Even though the Times Square celebration went better than expected, the parties worked best in the locations that were able to provide a backdrop of history: Greece's Acropolis, Egypt's Pyramids, the Vatican, London, Versailles and Moscow's Red Square, which partied just hours after Boris Yeltsin handed a briefcase of nuclear codes to Vladimir Putin. Instead of the futurism that all these zeroes seem to command, the event was best celebrated by looking back, partially because futurism always comes off as incredibly stupid. So Seattle, Wash., a symbol for technology as well as troublemakers in sea-turtle costumes...