There is no pilot. You are not alone. Standby. This is the time. And this is the record of the time. This is the time. And this is the record of the time.
-- Laurie Anderson
April 25, 2007
Russia's first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin - who played a key role in the transition of the Soviet Union (USSR) into the Russian Federation, and introduced painful market reforms - has died of heart failure in Moscow aged 76. Moscow. Photo by Ilya Petushkov. Prior cover: The Memorial.