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MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, has died, a Kremlin official said today. He was 76.
Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov confirmed Yeltsin's death, but gave no cause or further information. The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified medical source as saying he had died of heart failure.See the full content of this document
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Boris Yeltsin Dies at 76
Although Yeltsin pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, many of its citizens...
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