All of Russia to Join Yeltsin’s Library

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree creating a presidential library in St. Petersburg that will be named after post-Soviet Russia’s first president, Boris Yeltsin. The president has asked the organizing committee, headed by Presidential Property Managing Department head Vladimir Kozhin, to design a plan for implementing the project by June 20. The State Duma has already offered to allocate 1.6 billion rubles annually in 2007 and 2008 from the budget to finance the project.

June 21, 2007 by Uncategorized 0

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