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Russia’s ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
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Russia buries 1st president Boris Yeltsin · 2007-04-25 16:37
Russia on Wednesday, 25, was burying Boris Yeltsin, the 1st president of the Russian Federation, the charismatic reformer who smashed the Soviet Union.
Underlining his mixed legacy as the first president of independent Russia, mourners taking a final opportunity to view his coffin at a Moscow cathedral praised him as a father of democracy but there was no outpouring of national grief.
In a break with the past that fitted Yeltsin's maverick style, he was to be buried not alongside previous Kremlin leaders on Red Square but at the capital's Novodevichye cemetery alongside actors, writers and performers.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who forged a close personal relationship with Yeltsin in the 1990s, was to attend the funeral, along with about a dozen former and serving heads of state and senior foreign officials.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was to lead mourners at a funeral, Reuters informs.
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