My goodness yes, the Yeltsin years! I saw a documentary about those days a few weeks ago, political turmoil! It could have gone very wrong so easily. But to comment on a time like that is very easy with the advantage of hindsight or retrospect. Times of transition is never easy, what touched me the most was the fact that the ordinary people had to bare the brunt of poorly made political decisions and the people that made those decisions seemed to be rewarded at the time, very unfair. But look at where you are today! A nation on an upward trend in terms of International influence and power unlike the Americans that finds themselves in the opposite position.