"He was a genuine politician. You could change his mind if you talked to him for half an hour. He and Vladimir Putin are two very, very different people."
— Boris Yeltsin

January 1, 1970

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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, in "Georgia on a mission to win friends" by Richard Beeston, in The Times (25 April 2007)