# Yeltsin resigning!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeltsin-resigning/17138>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 31, 1999, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeltsin-resigning/17138 "1999-12-31T22:22:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeltsin-resigning/17138/21 "2000-01-03T21:07:00Z")

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Yeltsin resigned so his hand-picked successor could have the advantages of incumbency in the upcoming presidential elections.

Talk about transparent…

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Chaim Mattis Keller  
[cmkeller@compuserve.com](mailto:cmkeller@compuserve.com)

“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the  
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be  
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.  
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”  
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

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