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Former Russia President Yeltsin dies at 76

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

Russian President Boris Yeltsin drives a snowmobile near his holiday home in the Valdai lakeland, northwest of Moscow, January 13, 1998. Yeltsin, who buried the Soviet Union then led Russia through its chaotic first years of independence, died on April 23, 2007 aged 76, the Kremlin said. [Reuters]