Former Presidents Bush, Clinton representing U.S. at Yeltsin funeral
The former US presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush senior will be among a host of world leaders expected to attend the funeral in Moscow tomorrow of Boris Yeltsin, the Kremlin announced this morning.
Mr Clinton and several other "prominent political figures" will pay their respects to Yeltsin, Russia's first democratically elected president, who died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 76, the Kremlin said.
Members of the public will also be able to pay their respects to Yeltsin later today at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The church, near the Kremlin, was blown up by the communists and rebuilt under Yeltsin's presidency...
After a funeral service in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Yeltsin will be buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, the Kremlin said. The cemetery, close to the Moscow river, and next door to a baroque 16th and 17th century convent, has been the traditional burial place for Russia's elite during both Soviet and non-communist times.
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Mr Clinton and several other "prominent political figures" will pay their respects to Yeltsin, Russia's first democratically elected president, who died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 76, the Kremlin said.
Members of the public will also be able to pay their respects to Yeltsin later today at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The church, near the Kremlin, was blown up by the communists and rebuilt under Yeltsin's presidency...
After a funeral service in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Yeltsin will be buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, the Kremlin said. The cemetery, close to the Moscow river, and next door to a baroque 16th and 17th century convent, has been the traditional burial place for Russia's elite during both Soviet and non-communist times.