Yeltsin Resting at Black Sea Resort, Due Back Oct. 10
Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin, whose health has been the subject of speculation, is on vacation at the Black Sea resort of Sochi and is due to return to Moscow on Oct. 10, Russian Television said Friday.
The mid-evening news said Yeltsin, who played a leading role in the defeat of last month’s coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, is resting.
Reports earlier this month of a mild heart attack caused nervousness in Western financial markets. But aides said the 60-year-old leader is merely tired.
A spokesman said Friday that Yeltsin will break off his vacation to fly to the Kazakh capital of Alma-Ata for a signing ceremony if an agreement is reached on an inter-republican economic union.
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