Boris Yeltsin Dead

American Voices

April 25, 2007 | ISSUE 43•17

Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically elected president in Russia after the fall of the Communist regime, died early Monday. What do you think?

History will forever remember him as the man who helped bring Russia from one form of extreme corruption to another.

Francis Cooke
Systems Analyst
Yeltsin will be fondly recalled as a man who was alive when some historically significant things happened.

Mitch Lomax
Real Estate Broker
Dasveedanya, tavareech…uh…man, my Russian has really gone down the crapper since I stopped spying on them.

Jon Pemborrough
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