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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bandula" data-source="post: 478546" data-attributes="member: 2655">Yeltsin's funeral (Photos)<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42844000/jpg/_42844505_yeltsin2_ap416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A state funeral has been held in the Russian capital, Moscow, for former President Boris Yeltsin.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42844000/jpg/_42844837_queue_ap416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Mr Yeltsin, Russia's first elected president and the man who led the country to independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Monday at the age of 76.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42844000/jpg/_42844761_mourners2_ap416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Before the funeral, hundreds of mourners filed past Mr Yeltsin's coffin to pay their respects.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42844000/jpg/_42844559_church_afp220.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The service took place at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, which was rebuilt under Mr Yeltsin after being demolished during Soviet rule.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42844000/jpg/_42844575_family_afp220.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Mr Yeltsin's wife, Naina, and his daughter, Tatyana, looked on as prayers were said.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42846000/jpg/_42846755_416presidents_afp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />World leaders from the Yeltsin era - former US Presidents George Bush Snr and Bill Clinton, and ex-British Prime Minister John Major - offered their condolences to his family.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42846000/jpg/_42846749_416putin_afp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Mr Yeltsin's successor, President Vladimir Putin, had declared it a day of national mourning.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42846000/jpg/_42846753_416pallbearers_ap.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Mr Yeltsin's coffin was carried by an honour guard from the cathedral.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42845000/jpg/_42845761_cortege_afp416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />His was the first funeral of a Kremlin leader to be sanctioned by the Orthodox Church in more than 100 years<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42846000/jpg/_42846751_416carriage_afp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Mr Yeltsin's coffin was transferred to a gun carriage for the final part of its journey to Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery, where he was buried with full state honours.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42848000/jpg/_42848207_416nainagrave2_afp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Naina Yeltsin wept at the graveside as her husband was lowered into the ground, where he lies alongside many famous actors and writers from Russia's past.</blockquote>

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