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From Keith Porter, for About.com

Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007)

Monday April 23, 2007
Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin was the first post-Cold War leader of the former Soviet Union. As a popular and popularly-elected Russian, he posed a very new challenge for U.S. foreign policy. Yeltsin died today at the age of 76.

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