Yeltsin Won’t Quit but Plans No 2nd Term
Boris N. Yeltsin said Tuesday that he will not quit the Russian presidency no matter how much opposition he encounters but that he has no plans to run for a second term in 1996, the Russian Itar-Tass news agency said.
Yeltsin, who spoke during a meeting with workers in the southern city of Barnaul, is widely seen as the only Russian leader with the popularity to force through painful reforms designed to propel Russia into a market economy.
His current term as Russia’s first freely elected president expires in 1996, when he will be 65.
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