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Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin was a Russian politician who became President in 1990. In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country's history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching until his resignation on the eve of 2000. But on April 23, 2007, Yeltsin surprisingly died from heart failure.
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Government

In Russia, their type of government is a Federation. Russia got their independence from the Soviet Union on August 23, 1991. Their constitution was adopted on December 12, 1993. Also, the legal voting age in Russia is 18, which is universal.

The President of Russia is President Vladimir Putin.
He became Acting President of Russia on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and was sworn in as President following the elections on May 7, 2000. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term until his term ends in 2008.