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Boris Yeltsin clasps his hands amidst 12, 000 cheering supporters while campaigning to become Russia's first freely-elected president in Tula, Russia, Thursday May 30, 1991. Yeltsin, who kicked the props out from under the tottering Soviet empire and then struggled to build a nation from its wreckage, died Monday after seeing many of his democratic reforms rolled back. The former Russian president was 76. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing)