Ryssland

...sörjer.

Han höll ut rätt länge ändå. Knäpp? Ja. Skum? Da. En av de roligaste statsmännen som på denna jord vandrat? Da! För oss 80-talister kommer Boris alltid minnas, ackompanjerat med ett nostalgiskt leende.

Mitt farväl består av ett stycke från dödsrunan i Posts nätupplaga.

When he was a small boy the family moved to a nearby town so his father could find work on a construction site. There the Yeltsins lived for 10 years in a ramshackle workers' dormitory where parents, children and a goat slept on the floor. There was no indoor plumbing. Water was from a well. The goat was the main source of milk and in the long, freezing winters, the main source of warmth.

"It was a fairly joyless time," Yeltsin wrote in his 1990 autobiography "Against the Grain."

Spatsiba! Na zdorovia!