That is how a BBC News online reader concludes his message on the BBC discussion board. To many impoverished Russians, Boris Yeltsin’s mistakes vastly outweigh his earlier deeds. To me, his legacy does not really lie with tank-mounting or liberation, but brings to mind the mid 1990s, a time of newfound freedom, poverty, hope and plundering for Russia and that moment on the 31st of December 1999, what now seems like a very long time ago, when he announced he was stepping down and nominated Putin as his successor in the Russian presidency.
