text: Yeltsin on holiday from Monday - Interfax . MOSCOW 1996-08-26 Russian President Boris Yeltsin began a new summer holiday on Monday but would remain in control of affairs of state , Interfax news agency said . " The head of state 's holiday has only just begun , " the agency quoted Sergei Yastrzhembsky as saying , adding that the president was currently in a Kremlin residence near Moscow . Interfax said Yastrezhembsky did not exclude that Yeltsin could spend some time in other places . He would continue working on various documents and might meet " one state offical or another " . " One must give B. Yeltsin a chance to rest and recover his health after the elections , " Interfax quoted Yastrezhembsky as saying . " ( Yeltsin ) controls internal and international policies , daily receives a big packet of documents from Moscow , which demand his intervention ... Many of those documents return to the president 's administration the same day , " he said . Yeltsin went on a two-day trip outside Moscow last week to check out a holiday home .