Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Yeltsin Not Great at History: Treaty Remark 200 Yrs. Off

MOSCOW President Boris N. Yeltsin stumbled in his campaign for avote of confidence, with a historical error that would embarrass anyRussian schoolboy.

Yeltsin's historical goof took place Saturday morning at theribbon-cutting ceremony for a digital telephone link between Russiaand an international switching station in Denmark.

In a closed-circuit television hookup with Danish Prime MinisterPoul Nyrup Rasmussen in Copenhagen, Yeltsin noted that this year isthe 500th …

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