Place in history \/ Death of Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin's death was sudden, and at first there was confusion in the tone of the state media. They say that the Kremlin even discussed whether to declare mourning? But the opinion prevailed that a solemn state funeral would lay a new sovereign tradition - not to fight with one's past. However, by autumn, the denunciation of the "damned 90s" resumed: their catastrophic return began to be predicted if Yeltsin's successor Vladimir Putin was not elected as a "national leader."