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Yeltsin, First President of Russian Federation, Dies

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who helped steer the final collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Federation, died Monday of heart failure at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. He was 76.

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