The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> Mr. Oracle? Could you hold please? Mr. Yeltsin will be so happy > to hear we got through to you. Oh here he is now. . .

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Oracle: Borrrry! Boar-boar! The Yeltsinator. What's happenin', hot } stuff? } } Boris: You do not be calling me these things! I am important man. I am } Russian leader. You will call me President Yeltsin! } } Oracle: Yeah, yeah, whatever mashes your borscht. So, have you agreed } to my terms? } } Boris: Sigh. Regrettably, the Parliament has agreed to the deal, and I } must agree it is best way to go. Embarrassing as it may be. } } Oracle: So you agree to accept my $60 billion dollar contribution to } prop up your failing stock market? } } Boris: Yes. <annoyed sigh> } } Oracle: And you agree to utilize the $4 billion dollar trust fund I'm } signing over to you to dismantle nuclear weapons and protect existing } enriched uranium supplies? } } Boris: Yes, I said yes! } } Oracle: And what about the bulldozers, cranes, and other industrial } equipment I'm shipping you from Asia for use in strengthening the } Russian infrastructure? } } Boris: Are you deaf? I said we accept! Stop rubbing in. } } Oracle: All right, all right. I can see this is killing you. Do you } want to go ahead and get your "end of the bargain" out of the way? } } Boris: Yes, yes, quickly. The sooner the better. } } Oracle: Okay, get real close to the receiver. Let me just turn this } thing on... <click> Okay, it's running. Start talking...and talk loud, } so the recorder picks it all up. } } Boris: <sigh...> Hello, this is Boris Yeltsin, leader of Russian } republic. Oracle is not home right now...he's too busy rockin' and } rollin' and stayin' cool! Man, that Oracle rules! He could drink me } under the ta...under the table...any...day...of the...NO! I CANNOT DO } IT! I AM PROUD RUSSIAN MAN!! You go to HELL wise Oracle! Russia can } burn for what I care, but DAMMIT I can drink and drink and drink so } much it make your omnipotent head spin! } } Oracle: <click> All right. Suit yourself. Nelson Mandela has agreed to } pose for a digital picture so I can paste his head on a dancing } Hawaiian hula girl on my web page. Gosh, I wonder if his country could } use some empowerment? } } Boris: I can drink and drink and drink and dri<click>... } } Oracle: Oh well. Some people. } } You owe the Oracle 500 shares of Smirnoff, Inc.