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Bill Clinton. "Secret Service agents discovered Yeltsin alone on Pennsylvania Avenue, dead drunk, clad in his underwear, yelling for a taxi," Branch wrote in his book. "Yeltsin slurred his

https://www.rbth.com/history/328641-russian-beer-lovers-party
Follow Russia Beyond on Rumble. Created by two desperate political strategists drinking beer in the 1990s, the Beer Lovers Party challenged Boris Yeltsin and attracted lots of celebrities to its

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The best youtube compilation of Boris Yeltsin's funniest moments on TV. Drinking vodka and beer, singing and stumbling

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7838893/Britain-worried-Boris-Yeltsins-drinking-drew-contingency-plan-case-died.html
Britain was so concerned by Russian president Boris Yeltsin's heart attacks and drinking in 1995 that contingency plans were drawn up in case he died in office, declassified files reveal.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-09-23/yeltsin-drunk-near-naked-outside-white-house/1438342
Mr Clinton "relayed how Boris Yeltsin's late-night drinking during a visit to Washington in 1995 nearly created an international incident" Branch told the paper.

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Yeltsin Reflects on Drinking, Lewinsky Scandal. N E W Y O R K, Oct. 8 -- Boris Yeltsin says in his new memoir that he wasdrunk when he grabbed the baton and began conducting a militaryorchestra in

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Sometimes Yeltsin's lapses appeared related to excessive drinking, though aides always vehemently denied it. His outlandish behavior grabbed headlines even in Soviet times — before his victory

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Boris Yeltsin was president of Russia from 1991 to 1999, the first popularly and freely elected leader in Russian history. Ultimately, Yeltsin was a mixed figure on the international stage, variously considered a heroic visionary who helped bring down the USSR peacefully and took Russia into a new era, yet also a chaotic and ineffective alcoholic, more often the focus of ridicule than praise.

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So who was Boris Yeltsin? Born in Siberia into a family so poor they had to move when their only cow died, Boris Yeltsin was almost drowned during his baptism when a drunken priest dropped him in a font, and later mangled his hand while disassembling a live hand grenade using a hammer and a rock. Blessed with a razor sharp mind, he rose through

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2007/4/23/obituary-boris-yeltsin
23 Apr 2007. Born on February 1, 1931, in Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) in Russia, Yeltsin joined the Communist Party in 1961 during the anti-Stalinist political changes begun by Nikita

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Boris Yeltsin: Flagging a taxi in underpants. A much more recent historical figure, Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, leaves no room for any doubt. His addiction to alcohol is well known

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/international-tributes-abound-for-historic-figure-yeltsin-dead-at-76-1.654571
Yeltsin's behaviour became increasingly bizarre during his years in office as rumours of excessive drinking swirled. In June 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin dances at a rock concert after

https://www.ft.com/content/78eaa2d6-0b9f-11ea-bb52-34c8d9dc6d84
Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a healthy lifestyle a major part of his public relations image, in stark contrast to predecessor Boris Yeltsin's infamous penchant for the bottle. The

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A timeline of his life and career: 1931, Feb. 1. Born to a peasant family in the Ural Mountains and baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church. A few years later, Yeltsin's father is arrested

https://medium.com/the-peculiar-truth/the-peculiar-truth-about-boris-yeltsin-77a87c645a8e
Jul 26, 2022. Boris Yeltsin was Russia's president from 1991 to 1999. He and US President Bill Clinton had a cordial relationship. They met 18 times, more than any other American and Russian

https://www.npr.org/2007/04/23/9779564/how-will-boris-yeltsin-be-remembered
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin died Monday at age 76. In a column published today, Leon Aron asks whether Yeltsin will be remembered as a "hard drinking quasi-autocrat" or an important

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24170462.russia-turned-beer-address-alcohol-problem/
Because of Yeltsin's irresponsible booze policy. Moscow's prestigious Blokhin cancer research centre studied the autopsies of 25,000 Russian men who died aged between 15 and 54 over three

https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/boris-yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. ... Health problems, some of them caused by heavy drinking, eventually began to take their toll on Yeltsin. In

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] ⓘ; 1 February 1931 - 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during

https://www.smh.com.au/world/drunk-nearnaked-yeltsin-found-hunting-pizza-near-white-house-20090923-g0vv.html
Boris Yeltsin's drinking 'almost created an international incident', according to Bill Clinton. Clinton "relayed how Boris Yeltsin's late-night drinking during a visit to Washington in 1995 nearly

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Yeltsin (right) addressing supporters on August 21, 1991 (ITAR-TASS) WASHINGTON, April 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- S. Enders Wimbush, who served as director of Radio Liberty at the time of the breakup of

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/1/russians-drink-less-live-longer-who-report-says
The authors said this trend was a factor in increased life expectancies, which reached a historic peak in 2018, at 78 years for women and 68 years for men. In the turbulent early 1990s, male life

https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-international-incidents-caused-by-drunk-boris-yeltsin
4 Kyrgyzstan - 1992. In 1992, the nation of Kyrgyzstan - fresh from breaking away from the Soviet Union - invited Boris Yeltsin on over to patch things up with Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev, who would presumably receive state secrets on how to groom his own eyebrows. Good Lord, it's like somebody shaved Oscar the Grouch. However, Akayev forgot