Food Town closes location of former Randall's visited by Boris Yeltsin
The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...
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State Papers: What we learned, from details of Boris Yeltsin’s Shannon no-show to Ireland’s lost moon rock
Around the world, the mercurial figure of Boris Yeltsin captured international attention as Russia’s transition from communism took shape. Elsewhere, slaughter in the Balkans and Rwanda made for ...
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Rare footage of Putin addressing Russia after first election 25 years ago
‘Tonight on New Year’s Eve, like you, I was going to listen to the words of greetings from the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, with my family and friends. But it turned out differently.
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Russian ambassador ‘exquisitely embarrassed’ by Yeltsin’s no-show at Shannon Airport
Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s infamous no-show at Shannon Airport was a big news story in 1994 and newly released archive files shed much new light on the background to the incident.
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As Putin reaches 25 years in power, has he 'taken care of Russia'?
I was working as a producer in the BBC's Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking news: Russia's President Boris Yeltsin had stepped down. His decision to resign took everyone by surprise ...