Yeltsin Won’t Quit but Plans No 2nd Term
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MOSCOW — Boris N. Yeltsin said Tuesday that he will not quit the Russian presidency no matter how much opposition he encounters but that he has no plans to run for a second term in 1996, the Russian Itar-Tass news agency said.
Yeltsin, who spoke during a meeting with workers in the southern city of Barnaul, is widely seen as the only Russian leader with the popularity to force through painful reforms designed to propel Russia into a market economy.
His current term as Russia’s first freely elected president expires in 1996, when he will be 65.
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