31.   Yeltsin moved to the Barvikha government health resort outside Moscow to continue recuperating from a quintuple bypass operation.

32.   Yeltsin spent a long time at Barvikha recuperating from quintuple bypass surgery last year.

33.   Yeltsin spent considerable time at the sanitarium last year while recuperating from the quintuple bypass surgery.

34.   Yeltsin was taken to the Barvikha sanatarium near his Moscow residence, where he spent considerable time recuperating for heart problems and quintuple bypass surgery last year.

35.   Yeltsin was taken to the Barvikha sanatorium near his Moscow residence, where he spent considerable time recuperating from heart problems and quintuple bypass surgery last year.

36.   He underwent a quintuple bypass operation last November before succumbing to pneumonia at the start of January.

37.   His hospital admission came just two months after he underwent a quintuple coronary bypass operation.

38.   Yeltsin appeared on television Wednesday for the first time since his quintuple bypass operation, looking thinner but smiling and declaring that he felt on good form.

39.   The announcement came the day after it was revealed that the Russian president, who underwent quintuple bypass surgery in November, is suffering from a cold.