MOSCOW (AP) — Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-l
ine coup and later pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died Monday at age 76.
Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov confirmed Yeltsin's death, and Russian news agencies cited Sergei Mironov, head of the presidential administrat
ion's medical center, as saying the former president died Monday of heart failure at the Central Clinical Hospital.
Did we all miss the irony here?
1) Yeltin had a high alcohol content
2) Vodka would be his favourite preservative.
3) Smirnov is a Vodka
4) Guess who announces his death: Mr. Smirnov? The Mr. Smirnov himself...? "Yes, er, we are sad to announce a big drop in our vodka sales and yes... Mr. Yeltsin died too!"