RIGA - President Boris Yeltsin ill of late, has sufficiently recovered to put a pen to a pact on Dec. 8 between Belarus and Russia over shared government institutions. Yeltsin and Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, whose term has expired and who sees his future in Russia, signed the treaty in the Kremlin, setting the stage for the two former Soviet republics to form a confederacy with a program of action providing a joint tax system in two years and a common currency by 2005.The pact was to be signed in late November, but on Nov. 25, Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, telepho...
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