Intelligence General Calls for Closing Yeltsin Center
The “Yeltsin Center” operating in Yekaterinburg makes the image of the first president of Russia more negative than preserved in the memory of the people. Director Lieutenant General of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Leonid Reshetnikov stated this on air on the Politvera Internet channel.
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“I think that the Yeltsin Center is absolutely unnecessary and unworthy. Yeltsin had neither his own ideology nor his own idea. He had nothing worth passing on to the youth. They erected one monument - let there be such a president. But why create a center in Yekaterinburg, which, according to its ideology, is not aimed at strengthening the security and stability of Russia? It seems to me that what they say there humiliates Russia and the Russian people. Yeltsin appears in an even more negative form than he was,” Reshetnikov said.
“Yeltsin Center” is a public, cultural and educational center opened in Yekaterinburg in 2015 with the participation of the B. N. Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation. One of the main objects of the center is the Boris Yeltsin Museum,
Late last year, the museum found itself at the center of a debate. Director Nikita Mikhalkov, in an open letter to the widow Naina Yeltsina, proposed to “adjust” the work of the Yekaterinburg Yeltsin Center in order to “achieve greater objectivity.” He said that in the museum “there is a daily injection of destruction of people’s national identity.”
The day before, on the day of the 10th anniversary of the death of Boris Yeltsin, like-minded people of the writer Eduard Limonov held the “Yeltsin, Rot in Hell!” action in Yekaterinburg.
The Other Russia party demanded the exhumation of Boris Yeltsin’s body, since “his body has no place in Russian soil.”
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