Yeltsin, Former Russian leader, is dead.

The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified medical source as saying he had died of heart failure. He was 76.He engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy.Although Yeltsin pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, many of its citizens will remember him mostly for presiding over the country's steep decline.He created a private sector and allowed foreign investment, preferred chess game of politics to work of solving economic, social problems.In