Submission + - First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Dies
Uzbek writes: As BBC reports, first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, has died from heart failure on April 23. In the West he is regarded as champion of democracy and market reforms while in Russia many accuse him of ending USSR in 1991, disbanding democratically elected Parliament with military force in 1993 and forcing economic "shock therapy" that has left majority of Russians impoverished while paving a way for Russian oligarchs.