Boris Yeltsin dead at 76

Russia's first president Boris Yelstin dies from heart failure on Monday, April 23. He led the Russian nation from 1991 through 1999, when he abruptly handed over the reigns to Vladimir Putin. Yelstin played a key role in the demise of the Soviet Union and banned the Soviet Communist Party. He was born on February 1, 1931 in Sverdlovsk province of Russia, according to the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti and the Kremlin's press office.

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