Russian President Putin and president-elect Medvedev unveil the monument to President Yeltsin in Moscow

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich attends a ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of the death of Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow on April 23, 2008. Putin and hundreds of the country's political elite gathered to pay their respects to Boris Yeltsin on the first anniversary of his death. (UPI Photo/Alexander Astafiev)