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Yeltsin Is Out of Hospital, Source Says

World IN BRIEF / RUSSIA

March 12, 2001|From Times Wire Reports

Former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin has left the hospital where he spent more than a month with an acute viral infection, a source in the presidential medical center said.

Yeltsin, 70, who steered Russia's transition to capitalism during nine years as Kremlin leader, has a record of health problems, and his latest long spell in the elite Central Clinical Hospital triggered rumors about a new deterioration.

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