The death of the ex president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin saddened people all over the world. He died on Monday 23rd April 2007 due to a major heart attack. He was 76 when he died. He died in Moscow in Russia.
This great president gave the people of Russia a possibilty to think for themselves and that is one of the ways he will be remembered.
Former U.S presidents George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton were two of the 20,000 people who came watch his burial.