Death and state funeral of Boris Yeltsin
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Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, died of cardiac arrest on 23 April 2007, twelve days after being admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Yeltsin was the first Russian head of state to be buried in a church ceremony since Emperor Alexander III, 113 years prior.[1]
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Date | 23–25 April 2007 |
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Location | Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
Participants | Vladimir Putin, Sergey Sobyanin, Naina Yeltsina, Mikhail Fradkov, Dmitry Medvedev and others |
On the day Yeltsin died, President Vladimir Putin declared the day of his funeral, held on 25 April 2007,[2] to be a day of national mourning. The ceremony was broadcast live on the main Russian state TV channels, and was attended by current and former heads of state, with a number of them expressing their condolences. The lowering of the coffin into the grave was accompanied by an artillery salute.