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Former Russia President Yeltsin dies at 76

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-04-24 06:00

Boris Yeltsin gestures as he leaves the polling station during presidential elections in Moscow in this 1991 file photo. Yeltsin, who buried the Soviet Union then led Russia through its chaotic first years of independence, has died, the Kremlin said on April 23, 2007. [Reuters]