Yeltsin

Cheers and zakusky to a man who loved vodka and attempted to create a free media in Russia. Moscow Times. NYT. Sad about the free media thing, but at least capitalism came...

UPDATE: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/23/yeltsin.tanks.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest

CNN overlooks the crucial fact that Yeltsin was a nonfunctional alcoholic.