"Declassified Documents Concerning Russian President Boris Yeltsin"

We'll probably be looking at the fortunes that were made in Russia during the last years of the 20th century and it will be handy to have this on the blog.

From the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library and Museum:

National Security Council and NSC Records Management System, “Declassified Documents Concerning Russian President Boris Yeltsin,” Clinton Digital Library, accessed September 2, 2018, https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/57569.

Title: 

Declassified Documents Concerning Russian President Boris Yeltsin

Description: 

This Mandatory Declassification Review contains memorandum of conversations (memcons) and memorandum of telephone conversations (telcons) between President Clinton and President Boris Yeltsin of Russia, April 21, 1996 through December 31, 1999.  

Scanned documents that are a part of this Mandatory Declassification Review are not associated with a Freedom of Information Act Request

Date Available: 7/13/2018

Creator(s): National Security Council | NSC Records Management System

Is Part Of: National Archives Catalog Description

Identifier: 2015-0782-M-2

Format: Adobe Acrobat Document

Original Format: Paper

Provenance: Clinton Presidential Records: NSC Cable, Email, and Records Management System

Publisher: William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum

HT: BuzzFeed
The documents are in a big 'ol hog of a PDF, 591 pages.

On an almost frivolous note, here's one of my favorite Bill-and-Boris stories:

"When a Russian President Ended Up Drunk and Disrobed Outside the White House"

From History.com:

Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin had a weird relationship. There was the time the Russian president gave the U.S. president a pair of hockey jerseys that said “Yeltsin 96” and “Clinton 96.” There was also the time Clinton doubled over laughing when Yeltsin called the U.S. press “a disaster” at a press conference.

But perhaps the weirdest incident in their professional relationship was when Yeltsin got drunk and wandered into the street in his underwear, trying to get a pizza.

The incident happened during Yeltsin and Clinton’s first meeting in Washington in September 1994. Although there were glancing media reports about it over the years, it wasn’t widely reported on until 2009, when author Taylor Branch published his book The Clinton Tapes, based on his interviews with the president.

“Secret Service agents discovered Yeltsin alone on Pennsylvania Avenue, dead drunk, clad in his underwear, yelling for a taxi,” Branch wrote in his book. “Yeltsin slurred his words in a loud argument with the baffled agents. He did not want to go back into Blair House, where he was staying. He wanted a taxi to go out for pizza.”

When Branch asked Clinton how the situation ended, the president shrugged and said, “Well, he got his pizza.” But the next night, Clinton recalled, Yeltsin tried to do it again.

“Eluding security, he made his way down the back stairs into the Blair House basement, where a building guard mistook him for a drunken intruder,” Branch wrote. “Yeltsin was briefly endangered until converging Russian and American agents sorted out everyone’s affiliation.” Because the guards mistook him for an intruder, “Clinton thought this incident, although contained within Blair House, exposed even greater risk than the pizza quest.”...MORE

U.S. President Bill Clinton breaking into laughter after Russian President Boris Yeltsin made a comment 

about journalists at a news conference in Hyde Park, New York on October 23, 1995. 

(Credit: Jim McKnight/AP Photo)

More seriously, here are a couple of our prior posts on those days:
May 30
"The /Other/ Russia Story"
July 9
Steyer and Summers and The Harvard Boys Do Mother Russia