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Mourners pay tribute to Yeltsin

Issue date: 4/26/07 Section: News
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MOSCOW - Hundreds of mourners - some weeping, many clutching flowers - filed past the open casket of former President Boris Yeltsin in a soaring cathedral Tuesday, paying tribute to a man who brought epochal changes to Russia but left behind a tarnished legacy. The United States announced it would send former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to Wednesday's funeral for the first president of post-Soviet Russia. Yeltsin died Monday of heart failure at age 76. Yeltsin was laid to rest on Wednesday.

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