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Former Russian president dies at age 76

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• Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, dies at age 76.
• August 1991: Boris Yeltsin, president of Russian Federation, reads a statement from atop an armored personnel carrier in Moscow as he urged the Russian people to resist a hardline takeover of the central government.
• Aug. 23, 1991: Russian President Boris Yeltsin, right, shakes hands with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and thanks him for meeting with the Russian People's Deputies at the Russian Federation building.
• June 16, 1992: Boris Yeltsin pitches a horseshoe as George Bush looks on.
• June 17, 1992: Presidents Boris Yeltsin and George H.W. Bush exchange pens used to sign a nuclear arms reduction agreement.
• March 28, 1993: Russian President Boris Yelstin surrounded by his supporters, is shown as he raises a clenched fist acknowledging the cheers of some 70,000 demonstrators who gathered in Moscow's Red Square.
• Oct. 23, 1995: President Bill Clinton breaks into laughter after Russian President Boris Yeltsin made a comment about journalists at a news conference in Hyde Park, N.Y.
• June 10, 1996: Russian President Boris Yeltsin dances at a rock concert after arriving in Rostov, Russia.
• May 27, 1997: Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin shake hands at end of NATO-Russia summit.
• Feb. 1, 1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
• June 12, 2003: Boris Yeltsin and his wife, Naina, walk during festivities marking the Day of Russia on Red Square in Moscow.
• Sept. 22, 2006: Russia's former President Boris Yeltsin gestures as he attends a Davis Cup semifinal tennis match in Moscow.