To: Bob Smith who wrote (1861 ) 2/8/1999 10:56:00 AM From: Jim Burnham Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3576
Are you going to translate it for us, Jim? Ha. Let's just say, "From Russia With Love." I'd be more than happy to translate, except I don't know Russian so the translation would probably turn out:HGRM good Interestingly enough the english version of the Moscow Times can be found at moscowtimes.ru Another news article with an interesting sentence. Jim Yeltsin Meets With Top Officials MOSCOW (AP) - Boris Yeltsin left the sanitarium where he is recovering from an ulcer and went to his Kremlin office Friday for a meeting on the fight against corruption and political extremism. Yeltsin met with Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Security Council and presidential chief of staff Nikolai Bordyuzha and Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin, said presidential spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin. Primakov and Bordyuzha briefed the president about a Security Council meeting earlier Friday, which was called to discuss ways of combating political extremism, corruption and crime. Primakov, who chaired the session, called for ''unorthodox but constitutional'' methods of stabilizing Russia's political life. ''The fact that the political situation is very acute, and has the tendency to grow more acute, was stressed by nearly all speakers at the meeting,'' Bordyuzha told reporters. Bordyuzha said that a presidential decree has been drafted that would toughen electoral regulations to ''prevent the penetration of criminal elements into power, as we have seen happening in many regions.'' Yeltsin has urged his government to combat the increasingly powerful criminal groups and vocal expressions of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi sentiment. He also urged Stepashin, whose ministry is in charge of the police, to step up the fight against economic crimes, including illegal alcohol manufacturing and sales, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the Kremlin press service. Yeltsin's infrequent visits to the Kremlin, and the ostentatious displays of power that often accompany such trips, make many Russians anticipate new upheavals every time their president shows up for work. When Yeltsin visited his office earlier this week - for the first time in 1999 - he fired several top aides in the Kremlin staff. But no major fallout was reported Friday.