**FILE** Russian President Boris Yeltsin acknowledges the greetings of hockey fans gathered to watch the Izvestia Cup hockey tournament final game between two Russian teams in this December 21, 1993 file photo. Yeltsin went to see the tournament after making a public decree on dissolving the former KGB and creating a new counter intelligence unit. Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday, April 23, 2007. He was 76. (AP Photo/ Alexander Zemlianchenko, File)