Putin also called Yeltsin's widow to express his condolences, Interfax reported. Flags were flying at half staff, and television stations took entertainment programs off the air, in accordance with Putin's decree, Reuters reported.
Yeltsin had suffered health problems since resigning on December 31, , and died from sudden heart failure, medical sources told Russia's Interfax news agency. Mourners in black, including friends, family and members of Russia's political elite gathered Wednesday to pay tribute to the "founding father" of post-communist Russia. World leaders also paid respects as Yeltsin's body lay in state, watched over by a military honor guard.
In attendance at the ceremony were Russia's current president Vladamir Putin, former U. While tensions were high between the U. They built up close a personal friendship when they were both presidents of their nations. They played an important role in negotiating international diplomacy issues but were at odds a number of times, notably in over the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia. Analysts said the funeral service was subdued in comparison to previous funerals for Russian leaders, usually involving grand marches and displays of military prowess such as military parades common in Soviet Russia.
Yeltsin was both loved and hated by fellow Russians. Watch why Yeltsin's legacy is likely to be mixed. In December , Yeltsin sent Russian troops to stop the fighting in Chechnya in what would become a month conflict. Later he said he couldn't tolerate the "disintegration of Russia," and acknowledged his actions might have been a mistake.
It makes me sleepless at night, and no one can help me with that. Yeltsin favored privatization, but sweeping corruption put the vast majority of wealth in the hands of a few individuals who "wielded enormous political power. Yeltsin had a dark side that included embarrassing incidents in which he appeared to be drunk. In Berlin in , he grabbed a baton from a conductor and tried to direct an orchestra while singing and stumbling.
Mr Yeltsin was used to seeing the Patriarch as a reliable ally. Now, more unpopular and isolated than ever, the President's canny sense of the national mood told him it was time to back down, even at the risk of offending the church. It was the same sense of timing which led him, in , as atheist communist party boss in Yekaterinburg, to bulldoze the house where the Romanovs were executed, for fear it would become a shrine for pilgrims.
Yesterday Prince Michael of Kent, on his way to attend the funeral, criticised the Patriarch. Last night the coffins containing the remains of the imperial family and their servants were in the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul on a fortified island in the heart of St Petersburg, a guard of honour of four soldiers with fixed bayonets ranged around them.
The remains, bones found buried where their Bolshevik executioners had left them 80 years ago today, were contained in half-length wooden coffins, laid out on a three-tier plinth made of wood covered in stick-on plastic with a black marble effect pattern. After the service the coffin containing Yeltsin, who died from heart failure on Monday aged 76, was taken by gun carriage through streets strewn with red carnations to the Novodevichy cemetery.
Just before the coffin was closed for the final time, Yeltsin's widow, Naina, leant down for more than a minute to kiss and caress her late husband's face a final time, flanked by the couple's weeping daughters. Then an artillery battery fired three salvoes and the Russian national anthem sounded as Yeltsin's coffin was lowered into the ground. It was, overall, a relatively low-key farewell for Russia's first ever elected president, a man whose time in office saw Russians enjoy a host of new economic and political freedoms but also face confusion and sometimes chaos.
Before the service, more than 20, people filed past the coffin as it lay in state in the cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, which was blown up by Stalin and rebuilt under Yeltsin in a symbol of Russia's post-Soviet rebirth. As the funeral began, Mr Clinton - a close ally of Yeltsin when the latter was in power - enveloped his widow in a hug as she sat with her daughters by the coffin, which was draped in a Russian flag.
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