Article: - began his carrier as the Middle East correspondent of the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda and had personal links with influential leaders of the Arab world, including Yasser Arafat and the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. After the Soviet collapse he was appointed chief of the foreign intelligence service (SVR) by the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

Transcript: BORIS YELTSIN LOSES A BATTLE
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings;  September 10, 1998 ;     592 words ... ... JENNINGS: In Russia today, Boris Yeltsin was forced to back down. In ... especially America. He counts Saddam Hussein as a friend and wants to ease ... Gorbachev's advisor and now as Boris Yeltsin' s. And no one is suggesting ...

Article: Running scared: Boris Yeltsin is so unpopular that ...
National Review;  April 3, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... he is not bawling at Euro MPs in Strasbourg or embracing Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is pressing the flesh ... place. In his State of the Nation address in February, Boris Yeltsin pledged that both elections would take place as scheduled ...

Article: Russia freezes over: blame Boris Yeltsin, not the ...
The Economist (US);  February 14, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... start showing perceptible growth. The health of President Boris Yeltsin had improved enough to allow him to travel abroad again ... an apparatchik of the old school, is busy flirting with Saddam Hussein. The prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, seems to be ...

Article: Russia's part-time president: President Boris ...
The Economist (US);  February 14, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... de-rAegne hangs over Russia, for all that President Boris Yeltsin's second term has run less than half its course. His ... to have persuaded his boss that it is Bill Clinton, not Saddam Hussein, who poses the bigger danger to world peace. Last week ...

Article: More haste, fewer nukes? (George Bush and Boris ...
U.S. News & World Report;  February 3, 1992 ;     589 words ... ... disarmament race? All of a sudden George Bush and Boris Yeltsin could be in competition to promote large nuclear ... the republics could fall for the blandishments of a Saddam Hussein. They may find little comfort in the ambitions of ...

Article: A summit to boost Yeltsin, not security: hopes fade for military ...
U.S. News & World Report;  April 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... if not its only one--is to cast Russian President Boris Yeltsin as a respected statesman and boost his chances of re-election ... controls and has no plans to sell weapons to the likes of Saddam Hussein. But he contends that the proposed rules could hinder Russia ...

Article: Yeltsin's war games: as diplomacy ebbs, an American air war ...
Newsweek;  February 23, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Iraq draws closer. But whose side is Moscow on? President Boris Yeltsin is Bill Clinton's friend and "partner," Russia's ... great powers. His foreign minister, Yevgeny Primakov, is Saddam Hussein's old pal, a former KGB mischief maker now engaged in ...