Former Russian president led country after Soviet Union breakup
BREAKING NEWS
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:54 a.m. ET April 23, 2007
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 Monday. He was 76.

Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov confirmed Yeltsin's death, but gave no cause or further information.

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That is sad. When this effect anything?