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Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin had a weird relationship. There was the time the Russian president gave the U.S. president a pair of hockey jerseys that said “Yeltsin 96” and “Clinton 96.” There was also the time Clinton doubled over laughing when Yeltsin called the U.S. press “a disaster” at a press conference.

But perhaps the weirdest incident in their professional relationship was when Yeltsin got drunk and wandered into the street in his underwear, trying to get a pizza.

The incident happened during Yeltsin and Clinton’s first meeting in Washington in September 1994. Although there were glancing media reports about it over the years, it wasn’t widely reported on until 2009, when author Taylor Branch published his book The Clinton Tapes, based on his interviews with the president.

“Secret Service agents discovered Yeltsin alone on Pennsylvania Avenue, dead drunk, clad in his underwear, yelling for a taxi,” Branch wrote in his book. “Yeltsin slurred his words in a loud argument with the baffled agents. He did not want to go back into Blair House, where he was staying. He wan

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Boris Yeltsin

President of Russia from 1991 to 1999

"Yeltsin" redirects here. For the name, see Yeltsin (name).

Boris Yeltsin

Official portrait, c. 1991–1993

In office
25 December 1991 – 31 December 1999
Prime Minister
Vice PresidentAlexander Rutskoy(1991–1993)
Preceded by
  • Office established; Himself (as President of the Russian SFSR)
  • Alexander Rutskoy (acting, disputed)
Succeeded by
In office
10 July 1991 – 25 December 1991
PresidentMikhail Gorbachev
Prime Minister
Preceded by

Himself (as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR)

Succeeded by

Himself (as President of Russia)

In office
29 May 1990 – 10 July 1991
Preceded by

Vitaly Vorotnikov (as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR)

Succeeded byRuslan Khasbulatov
In office
23 December 1985 – 11 November 1987
Preceded byViktor Grishin
Succeeded byLev Zaykov
Born(1931-02-01)1 February 1931
Butka, Ural Oblast, Soviet Union
Died23 Ap
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History of Vodka in Russia

Adapted from The Little Water of Life by Paul E. Richardson & Mikhail Ivanov, Russian Life magazine 1998.

1998 may well represent the 600th anniversary of the arrival of vodka in Russia. One writer from the 19th century noted that vodka appeared in Russia no earlier than 1398, when the Genoese began shipping vodka to Lithuania. Although this may be accurate, it was not until the mid- to late-1400's that distillation of vodka began in Russia. Within another 100 years, the state was starting to move in and set up a monopoly over the production and sale of vodka that would last -- but for a thirty year hiatus -- for the next four centuries. Over that period, vodka has come to play a vital role in Russian culture, in the financing of the Russian state, and, sadly, in the destruction of families and individuals due to alcoholism, abuse and accidents.

The Russian Drink

Many nations of the world have a singular drink that they have come to be identified with and that has come to be identified with them. For the French it is wine; the British and

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