Focus on Yeltsin's Health: Colds, Lies and Videotape

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 1, 1996| Author: David Hoffman | Copyright information

On the weekend before the final vote of the two-part Russian election, President Boris Yeltsin canceled his Kremlin appearances and retreated to Barvikha, a government resort for the elite in a village outside Moscow. "The president is in good form," announced his press secretary, Sergei Medvedev, who added that Yeltsin had lost his voice.

But the reality was different. A campaign camera crew visiting Barvikha that weekend to tape Yeltsin's preelection address to the nation found ...

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