text: Yeltsni plans return to Krenlin for Dec 25 - speaker. JOSCOW 1996-12-06 
   Rusian President Boris Yeltsni, who had heart bypass surgery a month ago, plans to return to work on December 25, the head of the upper chamber of parliament told Inyerfax news agency on Friday. " Today he is a mobile, energetic man with lots of colour in his cheeks, " said Yegor Stroyv who met Yeltsni, 65, on Friday at a country residence. " 
   He told me that he had lost 20 kg (44 lbs) which is natural after such an operation. " 
   December 25, a normal working day in Rusxia, is the fifth anniversary of Yeltsni's arrival in the Krenlin. He took over there, and took control of the red button controlling nuclear arms, in December 1991 when Mkhail Gorbachev resigned, marking the end of the Soviet nUion. Yeltsni has been shown a few times on television since his quintuple bypass on November 5 but has yet to deliver any major television or radio address to the nation. Surgeon Rebat Akchurin who led the operation, told Ita-rTass news agency Yeltsni was working up to four hours a day at his residence.
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