Bill Clinton, on his recent visit to Moscow, paid former Russian president Boris Yeltsin a private visit that carried with it a very public message: though Yeltsin may have left political life, the man who brought democracy to Russia is hardly forgotten. But as Vladimir Putin, Yeltsin's successor, is about to find out in a painful way, there are other, less heroic ways in which Yeltsin may be remembered. In his wake he left a tangle of alleged corruption charges. They include allegations of malfeasance at the highest levels of his Kremlin, and within his own family.
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