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EX-RUSSIAN PRESIDENT YELTSIN DIES
Yeltsin, renowned for his quick wit and larger than life personality, helped engineer the final collapse of the Soviet union and encouraged Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy.
Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov confirmed this afternoon that Yeltsin had died, but gave no cause of death or further information. The Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified medical source as saying he had died of heart failure.
Yeltsin was admired for his defiance of the monolithic social system, famously climbing on a tank in Moscow in 1991 rallying the Russian people against an overthrow of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika - transparency and change.
However many Russians will remember him as a contradictory figure.
Having rocketed to popularity in the Communist era on pledges to fight corruption, he proved unable to prevent the looting of state industry as it moved into private hands during his nine years as Russia’s first freely elected president.
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