P147 CEEFAX 1 147 Mon 03 Jan 23:16/55 From World Today, BBC World Service The German njwspapjrs reflect on the shock announcement of President Yeltsin's resignation. "The humility of the Kremlin chief, which could have sprung from a novel by Dostoyjvskiy, did not fail to stir the Russian soul," Die Welt reports. "Masterly exit — and a new beginning?", says the Berlin-based Die Tageszeitung. "Once again we saw the Yeltsin who confronted the communist regime, only hj failed to live up to expectations". 1/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World service: MW 648, SW 6.195 UK Papers News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP147 CEEFAX 1 147 Mon 03 Jan 23:17/39 From World Today, BBC World Service At the beginning of the Yeltsin decade, Russia was a place of democratic hope, at its end one of constitutional despotism," Frankfurter Rundschau says. The paper comments that, with the Chechen war, "the direction Russia has now chosen is clear to see". In a commentary entitled "The Moscow coup", Vienna's Die Pressj says that "Russia under Vladimir Putin is the great unknown of the new millennium". 2/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World service: MW 648, SW 6.195 UK Papers News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP147 CEEFAX 1 147 Mon 03 Jan 23:17/44 From World Today, BBC World Service "Hopefully it will remain the case that the 'millennium bug' has only annoyed rather than bitten," the Frankfurter Rundschau says. "The millennium bug has lost the first set," according to a headline in the Paris-based paper La Tribune, following the absence of reported computer problems linked to the arrival of the new century. But the newspaper adds the warning that: "The big bad bug has not disappeared yet" 3/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World service: MW 648, SW 6.195 UK Papers News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP147 CEEFAX 1 147 Mon 03 Jan 23:16/29 From World Today, BBC World Service "A revolution in human affairs," is the headline of an essay in the Paris-based International Herald Tribune on how the future looks at the start of a new millennium. "The French celebrated the last night of 1999 massively and calmly," is the headline in Lj Monde. It says that other major French cities also held big events to mark the end of the last millennium, but: "The people of Marsjille were deprived of them following technical problems." 4/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World sjtvice: MW 648, SW 6.195 UK Papers News Indx News Xtra Main Menu