15 December 1997 “WE DO NOT NEED an uncle from elsewhere,” Russian President Boris Yeltsin said in an interview with Reuters before the Council of Europe’s October summit. “We in Europe are capable of uniting ourselves, to live normally.” At the summit, Yeltsin agreed to hold regular three-way meetings with French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. IN […]

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