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Yeltsin Statue Vandalized

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A monument in the Urals to late Russian President Boris Yeltsin has been vandalized, police said on Friday.

A monument in the Urals to late Russian President Boris Yeltsin has been vandalized, police said on Friday.

The incscriprion of the late leader's name was disfigured and blue paint daubed on it.

The damage was discovered early on Friday.

The 10-meter marble statue in Yeltsin's home town of Yekaterinburg was unveiled in February last year to mark his 80th birthday.

Yeltsin, who played a key role in burying the Soviet Union and became Russia's first president, died of heart failure in 2007.

The Communist Party said it would pay the cost of laywers for the offenders if they were found.

"This support is due to the fact that we share the feelings of the political vandals and fear that their right for a fair trial could be violated," top party official Alexander Ivachyov wrote on his LiveJournal blog.

The suspected vandals face detention of up to three months if convicted.

 

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