Four Corners

Tsar Boris. The Yeltsin Years Part II (1997x48)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 22, 1997

Summer Dispatches: Ex BBC. Part two of this two part series on Boris Yeltsin takes up the story in 1994, a year after Yeltsin had shelled his own parliament into submission and assumed the power of a modern Russian Tsar. Yeltsin's former bodyguard Alexander Korshakov, reveals many of Yeltsin's failings and foibles. Korshakov was sacked in 1996. Narrator: Bridget Kendall. Producer/Director: Paul Mitchell. Presenter: Liz Jackson.