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Yeltsin’s library opens in his home region

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Published 23 April, 2009, 15:58

Boris Yeltsin’s ‘small motherland’ Yekaterinburg, in the Russian Urals, has commemorated him by opening a regional centre of Yeltsin’s Presidential Library two years after his death.

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The center has been established to assemble and store documents on history, theory, and practice of ‘the statehood of the Urals’.

A memorial collection devoted to the first president of Russia, which includes books, magazines, films, photos, and objects of art, will be the special feature of the center.

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