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World Service,06 Jan 2018,49 mins

Boris Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation

The History Hour

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Mrs Yeltsin, on the day her husband shocked the world, half a century since the Mafia's grip on America was exposed, the 1999 protests in Iran - the biggest since the revolution - a student tells us how a photograph led to his death sentence and the Brazilian woman hijacker who took her kids along for the ride.

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