30 October 2000 Midnight Diaries by Boris Yeltsin. Public Affairs, 12 October 2000. 336 pages, in English (translated from Russian).MOSCOW–Boris Yeltsin is a man who once escaped his enemies within the Communist Party in a military airplane, hugging a cannon. He mounted a tank calling for the nation to embrace democracy. He fell off a bridge during a dubious night […]

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