The former press secretary of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, documentary filmmaker Sergei Yastrzhembsky, spoke on the RTVI Entertainment YouTube channel about the most embarrassing episode in his work with his boss.
“The most difficult situation was at a press conference in Stockholm in December 1997. Yeltsin was confused in numbers, mistakenly called Japan and Germany nuclear powers, said that Russia and Sweden fought in the 20th century (confusing Sweden with Finland), promised not to fight with the kingdom "for at least two and a half years", which he had power, and also got tangled in the microphone wire and almost fell, ”he said.
This episode is also described in the book of the ex-journalist of the Kremlin pool Elena Tregubova "Tales of the Kremlin digger".
In the period from 1996 to 1997, Sergei Yastrzhembsky was the press secretary of President Boris Yeltsin. Then he took the post of Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Moscow. In 2000, he was appointed to the post of assistant to the current head of state, Vladimir Putin. He held this post until 2008.
Earlier, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin considers the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, a major political figure.
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