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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev gets a supportive handshake from a Congress of People's Deputy delegate during a session of the Congress of People's Deputies in Moscow in this Sept. 2, 1991 photo. Seated at left is Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday, April 23, 2007. He was 76. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)