Hundreds mourn Russian first president, Boris Yeltsin.
Hundreds of people, including world leaders, gather to pay their respects to Boris Yeltsin, after he died of heart failure on Monday at 11:45 (GMT).
Boris Yeltsin died of heart failure, having had a history of heart problems, at 11:45 on Monday at the age of 76. Hundreds off mourners walk past the open casket of Boris Yeltsin in the outstanding Moscow cathedral.
Major world leaders join the grieving including Sir John Major, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, and Lech Walesa. "He was a remarkable man who saw the need for democratic and economic reform and in defending that reform he played a vital role in the crucial time in Russia’s history" said the UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Boris Yeltsin was Russia's first democratically elected president. Yeltsin was elected president of Russian republic in June 1991 after resigning from his role in the Communist Party and went on to be re-elected as Russia's President in 1996.
It is also clamed by Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin's first prime minister, that he was deeply hurt to see that his democratic values were being extinguished by his successor Vladimir Putin.
Major world leaders join the grieving including Sir John Major, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, and Lech Walesa. "He was a remarkable man who saw the need for democratic and economic reform and in defending that reform he played a vital role in the crucial time in Russia’s history" said the UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Boris Yeltsin was Russia's first democratically elected president. Yeltsin was elected president of Russian republic in June 1991 after resigning from his role in the Communist Party and went on to be re-elected as Russia's President in 1996.
It is also clamed by Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin's first prime minister, that he was deeply hurt to see that his democratic values were being extinguished by his successor Vladimir Putin.