Moscow - President Boris Yeltsin skipped another day of work in the Kremlin to visit hospital yesterday for a check-up apparently linked to a bout of bronchitis.
Mr Yeltsin "for a very brief time left his suburban residence for a planned check-up at the Central Clinical Hospital," presidential spokesman Mr Dmitry Yakushkin told the Moscow Echo radio station. He underwent an X-ray, after which he returned to his home, where he has spent most of the past nine days recovering from a reported chill and throat condition which developed during his aborted trip to Central Asia.