Yeltsin Radio Talk Accents Workload
<i> Associated Press</i>
MOSCOW —
President Boris N. Yeltsin spoke on national radio for five minutes Friday, outlining a busy work schedule and hoping to persuade skeptical Russians that the worst of his health problems are over.
In his first radio address since contracting pneumonia in early January, the 66-year-old Russian leader ordered his government to draft a treaty aimed at keeping Chechnya a part of Russia, promised not to scale back Russians’ pension payments and said it would be “reckless” to amend the country’s constitution.
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