I remember a few months ago sitting around with a couple of friends from graduate school and I asked, "Is Boris Yeltsin still alive?"...we all went around the table and the consensus was that Mr. Yeltsin was, in fact, dead...I wasn't so sure but I could remember that he was sick when Clinton was President so maybe they were right...even in this information age, nobody checked and I completely forgot about this conversation until today...I guess we were wrong...
By the way, there is a great band called Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin that seems relevant today...
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin -- Methane River