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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, has died, a Kremlin official said April 23. He was 76. He was a controversial figure, who proved unable, or unwilling, to stop the looting of state industry as it moved into private hands during his nine years as Russia's first freely elected president. (AP)
ロシアのエリツィン前大統領が4月23日死去した。
Shukan ST: May 4, 2007
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