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A file photo taken 23 October 1995 shows US President Bill Clinton (L) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin looking at the fall foliage out over the Hudson River valley during their meeting at Hyde Park, New York. Yeltsin announced 31 December 1999 in Moscow he was resigning immediately and the country would be run by the Prime Minister until presidential elections in March 2000. (KEYSTONE/-/AFP/DON EMMERT)