Boris Yeltsin dies

8.02.23pm BST (GMT +0100) Mon 23rd Apr 2007

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The Kremlin has announced that former Russian president Boris Yeltsin has died aged 76. I was a big Yeltsin fan, his involvement in the demise of the Soviet Union, and belief in democracy was legendary especially during the attempt coup against Gorbachev in August 1991.

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