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Former Russian President Yeltsin dies
AP ^
| 23.4.2007
Posted on 04/23/2007 6:53:34 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin has died, a Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76. Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov told The Associated Press that Yeltsin died, but gave no cause of death or further information.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: russia; yeltsin
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To: Grzegorz 246
Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov Wasn't Yeltsin a spokesman for Smirnov?
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posted on
04/23/2007 6:55:06 AM PDT
by
ChuckShick
(He's clerking for me...)
To: ChuckShick
To: Grzegorz 246
RIP - I’ll never forget him standing on that tank in ‘91.
To: lizol
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posted on
04/23/2007 6:56:18 AM PDT
by
Wiz
To: Grzegorz 246
If I recall correctly, his liver was about shot.
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posted on
04/23/2007 6:56:19 AM PDT
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
To: ChuckShick
Wow.
Yeltsin was still alive?
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posted on
04/23/2007 6:56:23 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Suspended for posting an article about Scalia and Arthur Miller arguing at SCOTUS. Seriously.)
To: Grzegorz 246
BUMP (cuz there’s gonna be a zillion threads posted on this...)
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posted on
04/23/2007 6:56:33 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(relaxing in a cloud of quality, pre-owned tobacco essence)
To: Chi-townChief
He was always be a hero for that. He single-handedly placed the last dagger into the Soviet Union.
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posted on
04/23/2007 6:57:06 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: ArtyFO
Yup...he was hard on the Vodka.
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Yup...he was hard on the Vodka. But the Stoli won out in the long run.
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posted on
04/23/2007 6:59:37 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
To: ChuckShick
To: Grzegorz 246
To: Chi-townChief
Boris Yeltsin standing on tank outside Parliament building in Moscow (left; tank commander waving flag to celebrate news of collapse of the coup (right) and Yeltisin waving to cheering crowd (below). Image Sources: BBC.com
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posted on
04/23/2007 7:07:52 AM PDT
by
The Mayor
(http://albanysinsanity.com/)
To: dfwgator; Chi-townChief
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posted on
04/23/2007 7:08:04 AM PDT
by
painter
(We celebrate liberty which comes from God not from government.)
To: Grzegorz 246
Boris Yeltsin was the only pro-democracy, pro-capitalism ruler that Russia ever had. People who share those values should mourn him.
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posted on
04/23/2007 7:13:36 AM PDT
by
mdefranc
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Yup...he was hard on the Vodka. Not as hard as it was on HIM!......
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posted on
04/23/2007 7:14:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: mdefranc
Absolutely, lot of ignorance here on just who Yeltsin was.
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posted on
04/23/2007 7:14:27 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: mdefranc
Amen brother. If the present Russian leadership was more like Boris Yeltsin, we'd be getting cooperation on Iraq & Iran rather than opposition.
Yes, he had a drinking problem. But he had a lot of company living under a regime where vodka was cheaper than safe drinking water.
R.I.P., Boris. You are the true symbol of Russian-American friendship.
I hope he gets a state funeral befitting his stature and we send someone befitting his stature to honor his memory.
He was the real face for freedom in the former Soviet Union, not the lieberal's phony hero Gorby.
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posted on
04/23/2007 7:45:28 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: Vigilanteman
Yes, he had a drinking problem.So did Churchill.
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posted on
04/23/2007 7:46:30 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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