Russia - Concern for Yeltsin's health

(14 Dec 1997) T/I: 10:50:57


Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on Sunday (14/12) pledged his support for ailing president Boris Yeltsin when he cast his vote in local elections. Earlier Russians had watched as President Yeltsin cast his vote in the elections at the sanatorium at Barvikha where he is being treated. At a polling station in an elite residential area of Moscow a string of top Russian politicians, including Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Yeltsin's ex-bodyguard Alexander Korzhakov, cast their ballots.

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA 14/12
Barvikha sanatorium, where Yeltsin voted;
various shots polling stations, Muscovites voting;
SOT Chernomyrdin (in Russian) "The state of Yeltsin's health is normal. I talked to him day before yesterday. He also voted today. He just has flu";
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov voting;
SOT Yuri Luzhkov (in Russian) about Yeltsin's health "There does not exist any doubt that the President is capable of working and very soon he will drop his ballot in support of the
Moscow City Duma. I am sure that in the near future we will see the President working at his desk";
SOT Yeltsin's former bodyguard Alexander Korzhakov (in Russian) "It (Yeltsin's health) affects your country (western countries) causing the decrease or increase of Dow Jones. We get used to such things as bringing voting urns to our leaders at home";
Leader of the Russian Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov voting;

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