Yeltsin shown on Russian television .
MOSCOW 1996-08-22
Russian television showed a brief clip of Boris Yeltsin on Thursday , with the president laughing and smiling as he spoke to nominee health minister Tatyana Dmitrieva .
It was the first time the president had been shown on television since he was inaugurated for a second term in office on August 9 .
He returned to the Kremlin on Thursday after a two-day break in the lakelands of northwestern Russia .