An Exotic Lady agency Travel and Russian Courses Click here to reserve your Hot Link. Boris Yeltsin is to fly to the Helsinki summit in a brand-new presidential plane, part of a gradual style transformation undergone by the Kremlin team since the days of the Cold War. Built and equipped in Russia, it was furnished in Switzerland in a indication of how Moscow has taken to things western after 70 years of insistence that Soviet was best. It has been specially fitted out for the Kremlin, with on board bedroom, meeting room and medical complex and equipment allowing Yeltsin to keep Russia's nuclear button close by, even in the air, the reports said. The new plane, whose construction was delayed the financial problems which have dogged Russia since communism collapsed, is part of a Kremlin makeover evident in the slick style of the Russian officials on the ground in Helsinki.
Mobile phones are in, brown nylon suits are definitely out.
Our country lived for many years under the impression that it is permissible to go to an official function in a light colored suit, that mineral water can be replaced by tap water. Twitching aside the official veil on the workings of the Kremlin, Borodin said his job covered everything, right down to the minutiae. We provide motor cars, receive guests, pour them tea, tie their shoe laces, make hats. We do everything that is required of us by protocol. In a sign national pride still played a role, Valery Kulikov, running the Helsinki summit's press operation, said on Wednesday Yeltsin would travel around the Finnish capital in a Russian-made Zil flown in specially.