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Russian President Boris Yeltsin, left, and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl listen to the Russian anthem in honor of Yeltsin's arrival in Bonn, Germany on November 4, 1991 in a three-day official visit to Germany. Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy as the country's first post-Communist president, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday, April 23, 2007. He was 76. (AP Photo/ Fritz Reiss)