I must admit that when I saw this headline, it conjured up another gaffe prone Boris: But the article referred to the original maverick politico of that name: Ananova reports the following: “Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a US visit he was found outside the White House in his underpants, trying to hail a taxi as he wanted a pizza. The following night, a guard mistook him for an intruder after the former Russian president was discovered stumbling drunkenly around the basement of the official visitor’s residence.