President Boris Yeltsin sits at his desk at the Barvikha sanitorium outside Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 11, 1997. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, summed up the complexity of Yeltsin's legacy in a condolence statement minutes after the death was announced. He referred to Yeltsin as one "on whose shoulders are both great deeds for the country and serious errors."
(Photo: AP/ITAR-TASS/Pres. Press Service)
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