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    Boris Yeltsin

    Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia

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  1. Death and state funeral of Boris Yeltsin. Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, died of cardiac arrest on 23 April 2007, twelve days after being admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Yeltsin was the first Russian head of state to be buried in a church ceremony since Emperor Alexander III, 113 years prior.

    • Dmitry Medvedev
    • Mikhail Fradkov
    • Vladimir Putin
  2. April 23, 2007. Boris Yeltsin, the burly provincial politician who became the first freely elected leader of Russia and a towering figure of his time when he presided over the dissolution of the ...

  3. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin [a] ( Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla (j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] ⓘ; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to ...

  4. Apr 23, 2007 · Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who guided his nation toward democracy and a market economy, died Monday. Yeltsin, who served as president from 1991 to 1999, was 76. Praised by Western ...

  5. Boris N. Yeltsin, who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union to become the first freely elected leader of Russia, has died at 76, the Kremlin said today.

  6. Apr 23, 2007 · Boris Yeltsin, who has died at the age of 76, secured his place in history by precipitating the end of the Soviet Union and becoming Russia’s first elected president. But by the end of his reign ...

  7. Apr 23, 2007 · Putin expressed condolences to Yeltsin's wife, the Kremlin announced, but the man who owed his position to Yeltsin more than anyone else made no immediate public statement about his death. Yeltsin ...