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Former US President Bill Clinton, left, and Russian President Boris Yeltsin talk as they over look the sunny splendor of the Hudson Valley behind Franklin Roosevelt's Hyde Park home in Hyde Park, NY in this October 23, 1995, file photo. (Stephan Savoia/AP) Boris Yeltsin dies - Kremlin

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Boris Yeltsin walks up the winding Great Wall of China in this December 17, 1992 file photo. (Greg Baker, AP)

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Boris Yeltsin dances at a rock concert after arriving in Rostov in this Monday, June 10, 1996 file photo. (Alexander Zemlianichenko, AP)

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Boris Yeltsin, left, smiles as he greets South African President Nelson Mandela in Moscow, in this April 29, 1999, file photo. (Misha Japaridze, AP)

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Boris Yeltsin gestures as he attends a Davis Cup semifinal tennis match in Moscow, in this September 22, 2006 file photo. (Misha Japaridze, AP)

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Boris Yeltsin watches the Davis Cup Final tennis match between Russia's Nikolay Davydenko and Aregntina's David Nalbandian in Moscow, Sunday, December 3, 2006. (Ivan Sekretarev, AP)

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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. (Alexander Zemlianchenko, AP)

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Boris Yeltsin is shown with clenched fists as he led a group of anti-government protestors who parade through the Red Square after the official military parade ended in this November 7, 1990 file photo. (Malkhaz Datikhashvili, AP)

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin waves, as he arrives at Helsinki airport in this Thursday, March 20, 1997 file photo. (Alexander Zemlianichenko, AP)

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Boris Yeltsin is shown as he shakes hands with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in this Dec. 20, 1991 file photo. (Gianni Foggia, AP)

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Boris Yelstin takes the oath of office at the Kremlin in this July 10, 1991 file photo. (Tass, AP)

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Boris Yeltsin is shown as he raises a clenched fist in acknowledgement of the cheers by thousands of demonstrators who gathered to support Yeltsin and his economic reforms in Moscow's Red Square in this March 28, 1993 file photo. (Dima Donskoi, AP)

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President Vladimir Putin and Boris Yeltsin talk at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Presidential Regiment in the Kremlin in Moscow in this Sunday, May 7, 2006 file photo. (Misha Japaridze, AP)

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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat kisses Russian President Boris Yeltsin during their meeting in Moscow's Kremlin in this Feb. 18, 1997 file photo. (Misha Japaridze, AP)

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Boris Yeltsin is shown in this November 29, 1990 file photo at the Kremlin. (Alexander Zemlianichenko, AP)

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A Russian girl and her mother watch the TV speech of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who announced 31 December 1999 in Moscow he was resigning immediately and the country would be run by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin until presidential elections in March 2000. (Vladimir Mashatin, AFP)

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Boris Yeltsin shown in file picture dated 19 June 1993 dressed in Yakutian national dress dances arm-in-arm with local people during his visit to Yakutia which is one of the richest region in the former USSR. (Dima Tanin, AFP)

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Photo dated 25 May 1991 shows Russian President Boris Yeltsin waiting for a serve from Soviet cosmonaut Igor Volk during a tennis match. (Dima Tanin, AFP)