Washington, UNITED STATES: (FILES)- Picutre taken 16 June 1992 shows Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L), in Washington DC, throwing a horseshoe while playing the game outside the White House Oval Office with US President George Bush. Former president Boris Yeltsin, the first Russian leader after the fall of the Soviet Union, died 23 April 2007,at the age of 76, a Kremlin spokesman told AFP. Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in 1931 near the Ural mountains city of Yekaterinburg and became a construction engineer before embarking on a political career in the Communist Party. Getty Images logo Getty Images 31 months ago

Washington, UNITED STATES: (FILES)- Picutre taken 16 June 1992 shows Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L), in Washington DC, throwing a horseshoe while playing the game outside the White House Oval Office with US President George Bush. Former president Boris Yeltsin, the first Russian leader after the fall of the Soviet Union, died 23 April 2007,at the age of 76, a Kremlin spokesman told AFP. Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in 1931 near the Ural mountains city of Yekaterinburg and became a construction engineer before embarking on a political career in the Communist Party.

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