Former Russian Leader Yeltsin Dead
Not tech news but, news that caught me off guard. Did anyone else think that he was alive? News to me.
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, the Kremlin said on Monday.
Yeltsin, who had suffered health problems since resigning from office on December 31, 1999, suffered sudden heart failure, medical sources told Russia’s Interfax news agency.
The Kremlin said his funeral would take place amid a day of national mourning on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
Yeltsin became the first democratically elected president of Russia in 1991 and two months later put down a coup attempt against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Well, what do you know?
Tags: Boris Yeltsin, Russia