WI Boris Yeltsin remained PORF?

If he hadn't resigned, how long before he does? Doubt he'll run in 2001, so will Putin still succeed him? Effects on Russia-NATO, EU, US relationships?
 
Yeltsin would keep winning as long as he kept running, but I doubt he'd want to remain longer than one more term.

The "West" would probably approve. He was, after all, the drunked buffon they knew as opposed to the devil they didn't.

It's more of a question as to why did ER turn to Putin and his backers as a political party. The internal workings of that machine are where the answers would be.
 
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