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United Kingdom Former Soviet coup plotter dies in Moscow
Published on 25/09/2010
Gennady Yanayev, a hardline Communist who declared himself acting president of the Soviet Union during a failed 1991 coup attempt has died. Russian media said 73-year-old Yanayev had been suffering from cancer.