Kinder View of Yeltsin Emerges in Eulogies

MOSCOW, April 25 -- In the two days since former president Boris Yeltsin died, his official standing here has undergone a strange and unlikely transformation. He has been lionized by a political establishment that spent the last six years demonizing what it views as the anarchy and humiliation of...
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Peter Finn

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