He began as a charismatic young politician who became president of the Russian Federation, and made a heroic and historic stand on top of a tank in front of the Russian White House in defiance of a coup of hard-line communists. (Interestingly, The New York Times refers to this as a “right-wing coup.” One wonders who the left-wingers were if hard-line commies were the rightwingers.) Let’s hope he’s remembered for that rather than the ill-advised dance he did at a later campaign stop.
All of that is captured in this Russian TV report. It’s not transalated, but it doesn’t need to be.
