Naina Yeltsin responded to the statement about the attempt of the husband to flee because of the coup EKATERINBURG, 20 Aug — RIA Novosti. The widow of the first President of Russia Naina Yeltsin called nonsense statements by former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi that Boris Yeltsin during the August 1991 coup “went to a three-day binge, and several times tried to flee to the American Embassy.” Previously, Rutskoi said in an interview with the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” that during the coup, “did not allow Yeltsin to disgrace and to flee to the American Embassy” and “risking their lives”, brought Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev from foros in the Crimea Moscow. Rutskoi since 1991, was Vice-President Yeltsin, but in the conflict of 1993, they were on different sides of the barricades. “For me, and Rutskoi, and (in 1991-1993 the head of the Supreme Soviet of Russia Ruslan) Khasbulatov — people who do