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Reply Mon 23 Apr, 2007 08:05 am
Former Russian President Yeltsin Dies
Kremlin Says Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin Has Died
The Associated Press
4/23/07

MOSCOW - Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy as the country's first post-Communist president, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76.

Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov told The Associated Press that Yeltsin died, but gave no cause of death or further information. The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified medical source as saying he had died of heart failure.

Although Yeltsin was initially admired abroad for his defiance of the monolithic social system, many Russians will remember him mostly for presiding over the steep decline of their nation.

He was a contradictory figure, rocketing to popularity in the Communist era on pledges to fight corruption but proving unable, or unwilling, to prevent the looting of state industry as it moved into private hands during his nine years as Russia's first freely elected president.

He also led Russia into a humiliating war against separatist rebels in Chechnya that ended with Russia's pullout.

Yeltsin, who suffered from severe heart problems during his time in office, resigned on New Year's Eve 1999, several months before his term was to end. His prime minister Vladimir Putin became acting president and was elected to the post in the spring.

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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Mon 23 Apr, 2007 08:49 am
BBB
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 23 Apr, 2007 08:55 am
Goodness....I had actually believed him already dead.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 23 Apr, 2007 08:56 am
That was my first reaction, too.

He's been sick for so long...
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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Mon 23 Apr, 2007 08:56 am
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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Mon 23 Apr, 2007 09:38 am
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SerSo
 
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Reply Tue 24 Apr, 2007 08:48 am
Re: Boris Yeltsin dies
I do hope now he scalds in HELL, bloody murderer!!!
He wilfully deprived so many people of all they had and never stopped short at human blood. Fortunately the 1990's are over.
The only thing about it I regret is that he was never brought before trial.

Bye-bye, Boris. Happy scorching.
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