The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 8th, 2000
In memoir, Yeltsin admits using alcohol to dim stress of job
By GERALD NADLER
Associated Press
Sunday, October 8, 2000
New York -- Boris Yeltsin says in his new memoir that he was drunk when he grabbed the baton and began conducting a military orchestra in Berlin in 1994 but that he now limits himself to a glass of wine a day on doctor's orders.
In the memoir, "Midnight Diaries," Yeltsin also writes that he nearly postponed Russia's 1996 presidential elections and that he picked Vladimir Putin as his heir apparent because he wanted a strong, determined general like the ones he read about ...
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