'A Can-Do Person': How The West Reacted To Putin 15 Years Ago

Russia President Boris Yeltsin speaks with then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on December 31, 1999, the day that Yeltsin would resign and appoint the former KGB agent as the country's acting leader. The Ukraine crisis in 2014 brought Vladimir Putin's Russia to loggerheads with the West.

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