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Ken Burch

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28. Here you go:

Sun Jun 14, 2015, 04:00 AM

Jun 2015

http://www.biography.com/people/boris-yeltsin-9538949#president-of-russia

On New Year's Eve in 1999, Boris Yeltsin surprised the world by announcing his resignation. He selected Vladimir Putin to be the acting president until the next elections, believing that he would carry on Yeltsin's agenda for reform. No one expected Yeltsin to leave before the end of his second term. President for nearly nine years, he decided Russia needed a new leader to usher in the new millennium.

(It's questionable that the author of this piece actually "knew" that Yeltsin thought Putin was a reformer-that's conjecture at best).

That's the only reason Putin ended up in power. His elections have been murky(although there is stronog evidence that the Russian people actually do support the creep, as a plurality of Germans actually voted Nazi once)but he was only in position to call those elections because Yeltsin put him there-and Yeltsin would have known full well that Putin was a KGB careerist.

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Agreed on that. Ken Burch Jun 2015 #21

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When on earth did Yeltsin designate Putin as his successor? joshcryer Jun 2015 #24

Here you go: Ken Burch Jun 2015 #28

I do think he has support. joshcryer Jun 2015 #30

Indeed they have. Ken Burch Jun 2015 #33

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