Posted on 12/29/2024 5:39:39 AM PST by RandFan
I will never forget New Year's Eve 1999.
I was working as a producer in the BBC's Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking news: Russia's President Boris Yeltsin had stepped down.
His decision to resign took everyone by surprise, including the British press corps in Moscow. When the news broke there was no correspondent in the office. That meant I had to step in to write and broadcast my first BBC dispatch.
"Boris Yeltsin always said he would see out his full term in office," I wrote. "Today he told Russians he'd changed his mind."
It was the start of my career as a reporter.
And the start of Vladimir Putin's as Russia's leader.
Following Yeltsin's resignation, in accordance with the Russian constitution, Prime Minister Putin became acting president. Three months later he won the election.
On leaving the Kremlin, Yeltsin's parting instruction to Putin was: "Take care of Russia!"
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Still calling American citizens Russians? Isn’t that what Hillary does?
/sarc
Your passport might say USA, but your posts all scream CCCP. Thats OK, I guess. Just own up to hating the USA and loving your motherland. You will feel better.
I hate war and cowards like you who cheer for it while never having the guts to participate.
It’s interesting. You suppose to know what is in my mind. Yet you deny your own.
Go get some sleep. Moscow will be waking up in a few hours and another day of spouting Putinist BS will start all over again.
That's it, that's all you got.
We're all Russian spies living in America, demanding peace and posting on tFR.
Are all you libertarians this stupid?
I never said you were a spy. I said you are a tool. Big difference.
Silly libertarian goofball.
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