Video Russia - Former President Boris Yeltsin Dies

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Moscow - 21 August 1991

1. Yeltsin waves Russian flag

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Kremlin - October, 1995

2. Yeltsin pinches secretary in Kremlin

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USA - October 1995

3. Yeltsin and Clinton share a joke

Russian Pool

Rostov - June 1996

4.Various shots of Yeltsin dancing to appreciative crowd during re-election campaign

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Moscow - 25 April 2007

5. Yeltsin's widow Naina leans into casket and strokes her husband's face

6. Low shot of portrait of Boris Yeltsin, with his widow crying in background

7. Mid shot of Naina standing by coffin and turning away

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Moscow - 26 April 2007

8. Close-up of Yeltsin's grave with a wooden cross and a picture of the himself, covered with flowers

9. Naina Yeltsin, wife or Boris Yeltsin and family walk into cemetery

10. Naina Yeltsin stands by her husband's grave

STORYLINE:

Former President Boris Yeltsin, who was instrumental in the final collapse of the Soviet Union, pushed Russia toward pluralism and a market economy, and launched the first war in Chechnya, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday.

He was 76.

The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified medical source as saying he had died of heart failure in the Kremlin Clinic Hospital.

Although Yeltsin was initially admired abroad for his defiance of the Communist system, many Russians will remember him mostly for presiding over the steep decline of their nation.

It was a period where the oligarchs came to the fore - an elite rich made billions from the state's resources, as the huge majority remained poor.

Thousands of tearful mourners filed past the open coffin of former President Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday 25th April, lighting candles and crossing themselves to the sound of chanted Orthodox prayers as foreign dignitaries headed to Moscow to pay their last respects.

Yeltsin's widow, Naina, and his two daughters sat dressed in black alongside the casket, which was draped in the Russian tricolour in the centre of the cathedral's nave.

He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery




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