**FILE** Boris Yeltsin, president of Russian Federation reads a statement from atop an armored personnel carrier in Moscow in this Aug. 1991, file photo as he urged the Russian people to resist a hardline takeover of the central government. Seated at right is a Russian soldier covering his face. 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/ file)