Boris Yeltsin Appears Unsteady at G8 Summit (1999)

[@VideoAmericanStyle]

I love how the look on everyone’s face is saying, “my god, this is the man in control of the world’s second largest supply of nuclear weapons...”

[@NothingSubversive]

First, actually

[@robertjarman3703]

In Russia, the military command structure requires the concurrence of a couple other people, the defense minister and chair of the staff if I recall correctly, and so Yeltsin could not launch a nuke on his own authority alone.

[@soggybadrongle]

@@robertjarman3703the president, defence minister and chief of the general staff each have a nuclear briefcase

[@squirehaggard4749]

Joe Biden has entered the chat…no, no wait, he’s just wandered off again….

[@VideoAmericanStyle]

@@squirehaggard4749 I’m not sure having Trump’s short, fat, grease-stained fingers on the button is any better, frankly.

[@stephenguppy7882]

I remember when he was greeted at an airport by a brass band and he nicked the conductor's baton and 'conducted' them himself. Alcoholics can SOMETIMES be amusing, but not often.

[@jagjitsinghmanku2283]

I always look forward to seeing him on the news. He clearly had a very big personality.

[@souvikrc4499]

And there was that moment where he conducted a German orchestra.

[@stephenguppy7882]

@@souvikrc4499 So many moments, it is true. 👍

[@souvikrc4499]

@@stephenguppy7882 And the most memorable one: when he was dancing to Yalta on stage during his 1996 re-elecion campaign.

[@squirehaggard4749]

“Tired and emotional” lol

[@Alexey-e5b]

How dare you. He represented his people unlike any other President ever.

[@HonkyReduction-b2g]

At 0:30, it looks like he's humping the car door 😂

[@dronespace]

😂😂😂😂

[@afritimm]

Now you should watch a compilation of Jean-Claude Juncker. "Juncker the Drunker".

[@KMuse99]

No wonder the West loves him 🤣

[@dincoox1725]

Biden russian version but funnier

[@Carlito_Brigante93]

Yes lol 😂😂😂

[@andreijohnson1846]

Хорошо, что это уже в прошлом и у России есть сильный лидер!

[@Mario-ge9iv]

@@andreijohnson1846Сильный лидер...? Вы значите, Цар Путин? Как тупы

[@123brownjames]

The good old days

[@MarkoKraguljac]

May they never ever return because they were not.

[@MrTVintro]

Alternate title: "Yeltsin Yeltsinging it up"

[@MultiVince95]

Sunday 20th June 1999

[@TheImperialChannel]

*Russia indeed had a lush presidency with Boris...*

[@tl2891]

Oh I just wanna drink with him😁

[@Egor8488]

А ведь в начале его президентства, он был хорошим и адекватным человеком. Всё таки вовремя нужно уходить с поста президента страны, чтобы люди и история запомнила как компетентного лидера.

[@alm9368]

Nobody is perfect.

[@brianrunyon266]

Faults aside, was better than what came after he resigned on New Years Eve.

[@orenalbertmeisel3127]

Better for who? The Guardian op-ed writers?

[@illomens2766]

Russians would disagree. Putin improved the living standard of the average Russian citizen severalfold. Russia is currently the 4th biggest economy in the world according to the WEF. During Yeltsin's leadership, Russia was on its knees.

[@TeddyKrimsony]

There was a famine during his reign and he was finally removed after his second impeachment for bankrupting the country, he refused to resign after his first impeachment.

[@pgr3290]

@@illomens2766 Putin then walked in the door and oil prices skyrocketed which gave him the money to finish the reforms Yeltsin started. Without the ugly reforms, chaos and oil prices Putin wouldn't have lasted more than one term. It was also then easy to pin the blame for that on Yeltsin's government when they were really just the result of 70 years of communism's failure. Nobody wanted to scrutinise where Putin had actually come from, his own serious corruption issues or how the country only hangs on by pumping oil and gas. This is not a healthy economy by any means, it has the worst income disparity of any 'developed' country.

[@PauliusTautvydas]

@@orenalbertmeisel3127 nah, for the civilized world.

[@raypeters4525]

HE IS DRUNK !

[@bushman143]

He could drink Juncker under the table.

[@martinkrukenberg4590]

did no one controlle him that he does not drink before G8

[@gerardwooning3383]

Full as a bucket...

[@GaryGeezer-l2s]

Geezer was on the sesh, absolute mad lad legend

[@mariannepradelle3859]

Anglo saxon Stoooooop 😊

[@Achtermeyer]

Erst einmal sich fest drücken lassen. 🐻

[@MarkoKraguljac]

Russia's rock bottom.

[@Carlito_Brigante93]

Absolutely

[@typenull3367]

Still better than the communists before him and the communist after him

[@BrianKarolina-ip5mz]

Typical Yeltsin Always drunk after got power

[@martthvdb9701]

Seems quite good if you compare it to Biden.

[@afritimm]

Putin was showing someone around the Kremlin. He pointed out the fully-equipped medical facility and said Boris Yeltsin had used it quite a bit. Then they passed a gym, and Putin said that he himself used THIS quite a bit.

[@rivaldocampos7677]

Melhor o Boris bêbado do que os lideres atuais que só querem guerra e destruição!!!

[@andreijohnson1846]

губу закатай!

[@carlos8040ca]

The type of clown the West loves

[@pete3149]

Russia’s last great president

[@illomens2766]

There was nothing great about him. Westerners like him because he would bend over backwards to suck up to the West, to his own country's downfall. Russia was on its knees during his leadership.

[@Valen10-xxx]

а чем он велик. что привел путина в обмен на преференции своей семье?

[@afritimm]

He had a good heart, but he was corrupt and incompetent, allowing oligarchs to take over everything. He got a nice share for his own family too.

[@carlcarlson983]

Not a very high bar then!

[@annk.4039]

Не's not great for Russians.