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World leaders eulogize Boris Yeltsin, ignore his bloody legacy.(Inside Track)

The New American

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Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin was laid to rest in Moscow's Novodevichye Cemetery on April 25, as world leaders--past and present--bid a solemn farewell.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush, former British Prime Minister John Major, and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, representing the British royal family, were among the many dignitaries who attended the funeral service.

President George W. Bush, who did not attend the funeral, called Yeltsin a "historic figure," while British Prime Minister Tony Blair remembered him as a "remarkable man." Columnist Charles Krauthammer credited Yeltsin as "the man who brought down the Soviet ...

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