| gen. | handpicked successor | преемник (фаворит бывшего президента // Clinton had spent much of his presidency building a strong relationship with President Boris N. Yeltsin, Mr. Putin's predecessor, and gave the benefit of the doubt to the handpicked successor who became Russia's prime minister in 1999. I came away from the meeting believing Yeltsin had picked a successor who had the skills and capacity for hard work necessary to manage Russia's turbulent political and economic life better than Yeltsin now could, given his health problems, Mr. Clinton wrote in his memoir. 4uzhoj) |
