Wednesday, June 17, 2009

BORIS YELTSIN ON SAKHALIN

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL


BORIS YELTSIN
IN THE CROWD
OKHA, SAKHALIN, 1990

To build on the themes of two earlier postings, the new Russian leader letting the people surge up close in Moscow, and touring the far eastern island of Sakhalin: Find Boris Yeltsin by that trademark thatch of white hair. And read more about it in RUSSIA REDUX.

6 comments:

  1. Ооо, I read about this visit...
    You were on Sakhalin, yes?

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  2. Yes, thank you, I was. You can read about the trip, and see more photographs of Sakhalin, at "The People's Choice" (Chapter Two of RUSSIA REDUX).

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  3. Thanks, necessarily I esteem)

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  4. Have very much pleased - you have written fine clause about island! As the aboriginal of Sakhalin, I confirm it))

    Only one small specification: now there is an opinion (at least among the majority of inhabitants of Russia), that in the brought down Korean Boeing, there were no passengers, and itself self-years conducted radar-tracking investigation. Though it already never precisely to establish удасться...

    Also forgive, the photo ' Sakhalin Apartaments' has been made not in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk? Or this all Okha?

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  5. Thank you very much for your comments, Aleksandr. Would you mind repeating the longer one in Russian?

    спасиьо!

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  6. Oh, excuse! Just now into comments could come... I Am sorry: I have not absolutely understood your question)

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