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Monument to Yeltsin: Russia has erected its first monument to Boris Yeltsin—and it’s nowhere near Moscow, where he is deeply unpopular. A relief of Russia’s first president, carved into white marble, was unveiled this week in his hometown of Yekaterinburg. Yeltsin rose to prominence in 1991, when he famously climbed onto a tank to turn back an attempted coup against the reformist Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. After the dissolution of the USSR, Yeltsin presided over democratic reforms, but also over a breakneck transition to capitalism that saw the rise of corrupt oligarchs. Today, many Russians blame him for endemic corruption and an ailing economy. Yeltsin died in 2007; the statue was unveiled on what would have been his 80th birthday.

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