- 17:17 25/04/2007
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin was buried in a central Moscow cemetery Wednesday following a memorial ceremony attended by Russian and foreign dignitaries and earlier by thousands of ordinary Russians. 
- 15:33 25/04/2007
Russian and foreign dignitaries lined up to pay their last respects to Boris Yeltsin and express condolences to the family of Russia's first post-Soviet president in a grand cathedral in Moscow Wednesday.
- 10:17 25/04/2007
Russia is preparing to pay its last respects to its first president, Boris Yeltsin, whose funeral later Wednesday will gather current and former foreign leaders and representatives of dozens of countries.
- 18:49 24/04/2007
- 18:39 24/04/2007
Hundreds of people have been queuing up in front of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to bid farewell to the deceased first president of Russia, and over a thousand mourners have already paid tribute, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
- 14:40 24/04/2007
Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin, who died at the age of 76 of heart failure Monday, will be buried next to his prominent army general and the wife of his political adversary, Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 14:38 24/04/2007
- 11:21 24/04/2007
Leaders from around the world have expressed their condolences following the death of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, calling him a courageous fighter for democracy who championed reforms in Russia and promoted rapprochement between East and West.
- 09:07 24/04/2007
President Vladimir Putin will make his annual state-of-the-nation address to the upper house of the Russian parliament April 26, the Kremlin press service said Tuesday.
- 23:02 23/04/2007
- 19:10 23/04/2007
Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first ever democratically elected leader (1991-1999), has died at the age of 76 of long-term heart trouble.
- 18:08 23/04/2007
Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first ever democratically elected leader (1991-1999), has died at the age of 76 of cardiac arrest.
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