news.yahoo.com — Former President Boris Yeltsin has died, a Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76. Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov told The Associated Press that Yeltsin died, but gave no cause of death or further information.
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norbiuApr 23, 2007
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daikenApr 23, 2007
Meh.
russelldoveyApr 23, 2007
One should remember that in the Cold War, it was seen as in America's interests to use its intelligence capabilities to keep visionary, competent people OUT of positions of power in the Soviet Union as much as possible. Russia was lucky beyond measure to have someone like Gorbachev at the helm during the USSR's downfall; he at least saw that a "soft landing" would take visionary planning and monumental effort from everyone involved.Unfortunately, Yeltsin wasn't nearly as statesmanlike as Gorbachev; he focussed more on enriching himself and his family with stolen government funds than on guiding Russia into a new tomorrow.
bashar129Apr 23, 2007
In Soviet Russia, they execute people for making jokes about Soviet Russia.
gazoneApr 23, 2007
I was burn in soviet Russia and it was a poor country. I takes a empty bottles from trash to changes it for gum or candy at market. People like Yeltsin make a lot of changes to our country. Now I can work for Google and drive Lexus IS250. In country that was before Yeltsin I'll continue to take something from thrash to change it for alcohol or something.When I was a child all people was poor, but poor equally. Now if you want to work a lot and make a lot of money - you can do this. But if you like only to drink a vodka and do nothing - you will be poor. And this poor people don't like it and talking about that "good" times when all was equally poor, independently how they work or want to work.Rest in peace. This man give us a peace of freedom.
Closed AccountApr 24, 2007
now why couldnt it have been george bush that died instead of this russian president.