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Boris Yeltsin: 1931-2007

April 23rd, 2007 No Comments

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin 1passed away today as the result of an undisclosed cause. He was 76.
Remember this?

…but there was also this:

A portrait cast in tragic contradictions, Boris Yeltsin was the first popularly elected president in Russia’s history, garnering 57% of the vote in 1992. That followed a signatory confrontation in October 1991 [...]

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