SIMFEROPOL, May 26 – Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has ended a short holiday in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, local parliamentary speaker Leonid Grach said on May 26.
Yeltsin had originally been due to stay in the region until the end of May.
'Boris Nikolayevich left on Thursday evening in a good mood and promised to return to Crimea again,' Grach, one of the officials who saw Yeltsin off, told reporters.
Yeltsin and his wife Naina stayed at a state sanatorium on the south-eastern coast of Crimea, a favored destination of the ruling elite throughout tsarist and Soviet times.
Yeltsin, 69, resigned from office on New Year's Eve after eight turbulent years as president.
Plagued by ill-health, he has spent the months since his resignation at his country house outside Moscow where he is said to be working on his memoirs.
