Boris Yeltsin
Russia's former President Boris Yeltsin gestures as he attends a Davis Cup semifinal tennis match in Moscow, Sept. 22, 2006. Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally the opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died of heart failure Monday, April 23, 2007. He was 76.
Author: CBS News Staff
Credit: AP Photo/Misha Japaridze
