East News Russia October 2011

Photo: Wojtek Laski / East News Moscow, Russia - 1989 FILE PHOTOS Boris Yeltsin speaks at a campaign trail at ZIL factory in 1989 in Moscow, Russia. 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 Monday 23 April 2007. He was 76 years old <br> В понедельник, 23 апреля 2007, скоропостижно скончался первый президент России Борис Ельцин.