BORIS YELTSIN IN THE NEWS TODAY

BORIS YELTSIN 

CHECKS IT OUT 

BORIS YELTSIN INSPECTS THE BOOKS 
Sakhalinskaya Oil Platform 
Sea of Okhotsk, off the City of Okha 
Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast', USSR 
August 1990 

From today's Washington Post obituary of Kongar-ol Ondar, a "master of throat singing" from the Russian republic of Tuva: 

He mesmerized audiences with his ability to produce two or more notes simultaneously — a low, steady drone overlaid with higher-pitched tones that to the unaccustomed ear sounded like a radio gone haywire. 

His talent was so extraordinary that when he sang for Yeltsin in 1994, the Russian leader looked into his mouth in search of a device that could produce such music. 

From Russia Redux, Chapter Six:  Yeltsin "was never kabinetnyi, never one to be desk-bound."  He "liked to be out in the field, seeing things first hand." 

MEDVEDEV IS GOING TO THE KURILS; JAPAN IS UNHAPPY

IN A FOG 

TWO MEN IN A BOAT IN THE FOG 

ON THE SEA OF OKHOTSK, OFF THE 

ISLAND OF SAKHALIN, RUSSIA 

It has been announced that Russian president Dmitry Medvedev will be visiting the Kuril Islands, part of Sakhalin oblast' in the Russian Far East.   Tokyo is said to find the visit provocative -- a Russian president visiting Japan's "Northern Territories." 

World War II is not ended for Russia and Japan because of these disputed islands, or islets. 

IN A FOG: SAKHALIN, RUSSIA

IN A FOG 

TWO MEN IN A BOAT 

IN THE FOG 

ON THE SEA OF OKHOTSK, 

OFF THE 

ISLAND OF 

SAKHALIN, RUSSIA 

LENIN AGAIN: SOVIET MANAGEMENT AT SEA

LENIN AGAIN

SOVIET MANAGEMENT AT SEA

CAPTAIN OF A FLOATING FISH FACTORY

ON THE SEA OKHOTSK

OFF SAKHALIN (RUSSIA), USSR, 1990