A woman holds a picture of Russian late president Boris Yeltsin
A woman holds a picture of Russian late president Boris Yeltsin (Getty Images)

Bear Down

April 27, 2007

When former Russian president Boris Yeltsin died this week, a near-universal chorus of obituarists declared his legacy mixed. He may have ushered in democracy and a free press, but he failed to build the institutions to sustain them.

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