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Putin, who could hardly be more different
President led Russia out of the Soviet era
MOSCOW Boris N. Yeltsin, the Russian leader who broke the Soviet Union and the system it had created, died yesterday in Moscow of complications from chronic heart problems. He was 76.Mr. Yeltsin was magnetic and fearless, a moncler outlet online shop tough provincial brawler moncler saldi uomo who was a classic Russian type and was recognized as such by the Russians.He was cast out by the Communist Party as a renegade in the 1980s, but in 1991 history gave him a chance to