Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Yeltsin akaramba achiita kuti vanhu vasamuziva paakasiya basa, asingambotauri kana kuti kuoneka pachena. Akatsoropodza mutsivi wake muna December 2000 nokuda kwokutsigira kudzorerwa kworwiyo rwenyika rweSoviet-era. Muna January 2001 akaiswa muchipatara kwemavhiki matanhatu aine pneumonia yakakonzerwa noutachiona hweutachiona. Musi wa13 September 2004, zvichitevera
Beslan chikoro chevasungwa uye zvinoputika zvehugandanga zvakafanana muMoscow, Putin akatanga chirongwa chokutsiva kusarudzwa kwevatongi vematunhu nehurongwa hwaizogadzwa zvakananga nemutungamiri wenyika uye kubvumirwa nemitemo yematunhu. Yeltsin, pamwe chete naMikhail Gorbachev, vakatsoropodza pachena hurongwa hwaPutin sechiito chokurega demokrasi muRussia uye kudzokera kumashandiro ezvematongerwe enyika anotungamirirwa nehurumende yeSoviet.