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BORIS YELTSIN DEAD AT 76 IN MOSCOW

(L to R) Speaker of Russian lower house of parliament Boris Gryzlov, Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila attend the funeral ceremony of former President Boris Yeltsin in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on April 25, 2007. Yeltsin was laid to rest on Wednesday next to the graves of an illusionist, a ballerina and a soviet film star on Novodevichiy cemetery in Moscow. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)

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