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On New Year’s Eve 1999, Russian president Boris Yeltsin shocked the world by resigning during his annual TV address. Less than a decade earlier, Yeltsin had succeeded the last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin oversaw a period of huge upheaval following the USSR's collapse.
Yelstin’s widow, Naina Yeltsina, spoke to Witness about her husband and his dramatic decision.