December 1994 - Drops out of sight for two weeks for minor nose surgery. July 1995 - Hospitalized for two weeks with acute heart trouble. Recuperates for two weeks at Barvikha health resort outside Moscow. Aides release old photo of him at work, apparently attempting to show him up and about. October 1995 - Hospitalized for nearly a month with heart problems.
Aides cite exhaustion following U.S. summit.
Disappears from public view for final week before the July 3 election. Aides cite a sore throat, his wife blames a cold. It proves to be heart trouble. Dr. Renat Akchurin, the doctor performing Yeltsin's heart bypass surgery, says the president had a heart attack in late June or early July. Doctors recommend he stay inside and rest.