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Blame This Drunken Bear for Vladimir Putin

’90s Chaos

Bill Clinton had to call Russia’s first president early in the day to catch him sober. But the U.S. could work with Yeltsin—though he chose a successor who would ‘repudiate his legacy.’

Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Clift
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Eleanor Clift

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