We were ignorant back then
“ Yeltsin alone on Pennsylvania Avenue, dead drunk, clad in his underwear, yelling for a taxi,” Branch wrote in his book. “Yeltsin slurred his words in a loud argument with the baffled agents. He did not want to go back into Blair House, where he was staying. He wanted a taxi to go out for pizza.”
When Branch asked Clinton how the situation ended, the president shrugged and said, “Well, he got his pizza.”
https://www.history.com/news/bill-clinton-boris-yeltsin-drunk-1994-russian-state-visit