Konstantin von Eggert

Kommersant

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Commentator for Russian commercial radio station Kommersant; former Moscow Bureau Chief for the BBC Russian Service

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He presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union and became Russia's first elected president.  Today, Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, as the US grapples with his…

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