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Tue 04 Apr 2007Boris Yeltsin dies in Moscow aged 76Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who broke up the Soviet Union and dismantled the country's communist economy, died yesterday from heart problems, writes Conor Sweeneyin Moscow.Mr Yeltsin (76), who had suffered from poor health, depression and alcoholism for decades, ruled Russia throughout the chaotic 1990s and helped install Russia's current president, Vladimir Putin.