Russia Reacts to Yeltsin's Health Crisis 🇷🇺

(18 Mar 1998) T/I: 10:25:19


Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday (18/03 compared Boris Yeltsin's health crisis to the last days of ailing USSR leader Leonid Brezhnev. Yeltsin has been holed up in a country residence since Friday (13/03) and has cancelled a series of top level meetings.
Russian MPs have also been concerned with the President's health. On Wednesday (18/03) Gennady Burbulis, a personal friend of Yeltsin and a top minister in his first cabinet, admitted the president was ill and this was now affecting the country's politics and economy.

SHOWS:

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - 18/03
WS Duma hallway;
MS journalists;
SOT (in Russian) with Gennady Burbulis, close friend of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, saying: "Yeltsin's health has been a real factor both objectively and subjectively speaking in Russia's internal and foreign affairs and unfortunately his illness has become a major political and economic factor.";
WS Liberal party leader, Grigory Yavlinsky, surrounded by press;
SOT (in Russian) with Yavlinsky, saying: "The communists keep bringing up this old chesnut (Yeltsin's health and impeachment) all the time regardless of anything, because they don't have a political leg to stand on";
MS people in Duma hallway;
SOT (in Russian) with right-wing politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, saying: "Right now we have a situation which is similar to that of 1923, we have about 2 months left (before Yeltsin's death). Soon, he will give an order to transfer his duties and authority to Victor Chernomyrdin and he'll become the head of the government and state."
MS Zhirinovsky leaving;

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