Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Yeltsin ya ci gaba da kasancewa mai saukin kai bayan murabus dinsa, ba ya yin wata sanarwa ko bayyana a bainar jama'a. Ya soki magajinsa a watan Disamba na 2000 don tallafawa sake dawo da taken taken zamanin Soviet. A Janairu 2001 an kwantar da shi a asibiti na makonni shida da ciwon huhu sakamakon kamuwa da kwayar cutar. A ranar 13 ga Satumba, 2004, bayan da
Rikicin garkuwa da makarantar Beslan da kusan hare-haren ta'addanci a Moscow, Putin ya kaddamar da wani shiri don maye gurbin zaben gwamnonin yanki tare da tsarin da shugaban zai nada su kai tsaye kuma majalisun dokoki na yankin suka amince da su. Yeltsin, tare da Mikhail Gorbachev, sun soki shirin Putin a bainar jama'a a matsayin mataki daga dimokiradiyya a Rasha da kuma komawa ga tsarin siyasa na zamanin Soviet.