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BBC Monitoring
Russia: Yeltsin's Yekaterinburg flat big but ordinary-
ex-official
Source: NTV, Moscow, in Russian 1500 gmt 7 Aug 03
[Presenter] The first president of Russia [Boris Yeltsin] is at the focus of
attention in [his native city of] Yekaterinburg again. People are discussing
the news that the flat, in which Yeltsin lived when he was the local Communist
party boss, has been offered for sale.
Yesterday [on 6 August] our channel showed the block of flats. Today we
received a video of the flat interior. The building is in the centre of the
city,
at the Rabochey Molodezhi embankment. The flat of 167 sq. m occupies the whole
of the fourth floor and has five rooms and four balconies. Ceilings are about
three m high. Now you see a computer map of the flat.
When Yeltsin moved to Moscow [in 1985], the family of a military man move
into his flat. Now it's being sold for 200,000 dollars. This is what people in
the city say.
[Anatoliy Letov, captioned as former official of the Sverdlovsk Region
Communist party committee] This flat is bigger than other flats in the building
and
a little bit better decorated, that's all. There is nothing special about it.
[Video shows the building and the flat interior]
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