Former Russian President Dies Story aired: Monday, April 23, 2007
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace a market economy died today.
The Interfax News Agency says Yeltsin died of heart failure at 76.
His death comes as critics of his successor Vladimir Putin say the reforms Yeltsin instituted are being chipped away.
Marshall Goldman is senior scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies at Harvard University and he joins us now to place Boris Yeltsin's life in context.
Guests:
Marshall Goldman
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