Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I noho puku a Yeltsin i muri i tana wehenga, kaore i puta he korero a te iwi, he whakaaturanga ranei. I whakahe ia i tana kaitautoko i te marama o Tihema 2000 mo te tautoko i te whakahoutanga o te waiata a motu o te Soviet-era. I te marama o Hanuere 2001, i noho ia ki te hōhipera mō ngā wiki e ono i te mate pneumonia nā tētahi mate huaketo. I te 13 o Hepetema 2004, whai muri i te raru o te whare wananga o Beslan
me ngā whakaeke kaiwhakatuma tata tahi i Moscow, i whakarewahia e Putin tētahi kaupapa hei whakakapi i te pōtitanga o ngā kāwana ā-rohe ki tētahi pūnaha ka tohua hāngai e te perehitini, ā, ka whakaaetia e ngā whare ture ā-rohe. Ko Yeltsin, me Mikhail Gorbachev, i whakahe i te mahere a Putin hei taahiraa mai i te manapori i Russia me te hokinga ki te taputapu torangapu o te wa o te Soviet.