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| Break A Leg, Boris! |
| 2005-09-07 |
| Via FARK. ROME (AP) - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin was hospitalized Wednesday after breaking a leg during a fall Emergency service workers arrived early Wednesday at a villa in exclusive Porto Rotondo, where the 74-year-old Yeltsin was Yeltsin's spokesman Vladimir Shevchenko told Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency that the former president had broken a thighbone in a bad fall while on vacation in Italy and would be flown to Russia later Wednesday. What, no details? Yeltsin fell at the home around 6 a.m. and initially was taken care of by his bodyguards, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. Clinton ripped his knee up when he was Prez, didn't he? Dr. Maria Serena Fenu, medical director of the San Giovanni di Dio hospital in nearby Olbia, said Yeltsin was treated there, then taken elsewhere. She declined to release further information, citing privacy reasons. A doctor in the hospital's orthopedics department, who said he was not authorized to have his name published, said an X-ray revealed Elderly people who break their upper-thighbones often require hip surgery. "Given his age, it's easy to break a femur," Soro said. The Russian Embassy in Rome referred questions to Yeltsin's representatives in Moscow, who could not immediately be reached for comment. Yeltsin - Russia's first elected president after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union - has kept a low profile since resigning Dec. 31, 1999, appearing only occasionally at tennis tournaments or to greet foreign officials. During the final years of his presidency he was dogged by health problems, retreating regularly to his country residence outside Moscow and spending days, sometimes weeks, away from the Kremlin. In retirement, he has concentrated on health-boosting regimens, traveling to China and other destinations for treatment. Porto Rotondo is an exclusive resort on Sardinia's Emerald Coast. Premier Silvio Berlusconi, among others, has a home nearby. Seems like they're going to great lengths to avoid the obvious... |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #2 I'd like to see a cage match with Boris' liver and Keith Richards'. |
| Posted by: VAMark 2005-09-07 20:41 |
| #1 Jeez, Boris. Are you still getting those "colds" all the time? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-09-07 15:37 |