| |  Today, Russia mourns its first President Boris Yeltsin who died at 76 on April 23 of heart failure. He will be buried today on Moscow's Novodevichye cemetery.
Former and incumbent heads of different states have been arriving in Moscow to pay their last tribute to Yeltsin. Of the CIS and Baltic, Presidents of Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia Nursultan Nazarbayev, Alexander Lukashenko and Robert Kocherian, Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and ex-President Leonid Kuchma, Tajikistan's Prime Minister Akil Akilov, Lithuania's incumbent and former Presidents Valdas Adamkus and Algirdas Brazauskas and Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, as well as representatives of other countries, are expected to attend the ceremony.
The European Commission will be represented by Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy. Former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush alongside delegates from major European countries, including President of Germany Horst Koehler, Prince Andrew from the Great Britain, and France's Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, are expected to arrive as well.
"Alliance Media" News Agency, based on the story by RBC
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Russia mourns ex-President today
