First president of Russia is dead

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. I post this here because news agencies are unavailable because of massive traffic and problems with servers.

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First president of Russia, Boris Nikolaevich Eltsin has died today. He was a great politic and he made a lot in putting US-Russian relationship to a new level.

He was the president of Russia from 1993 (after the crash of Soviet Union) to December,31, 1999. He was born February,1,1931.