Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Yeltsin akaramba akanyarara mushure mekurega kwake basa, asinganyanyi kutaura kana 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 waSeptember 13, 2004, pashure pokunge vanhu vabatwa vari nhapwa pachikoro chokuBeslan
uye kurwisa kwegandanga kwakaitika panguva imwe chete muMoscow, Putin akatanga chirongwa chokutsiva kusarudzwa kwavabati vematunhu negadziriro yokuti vagadzwe zvakananga napurezidhendi uye vabvumirwe nemitemo yematunhu. Yeltsin, pamwe chete naMikhail Gorbachev, vakatsoropodza pachena hurongwa hwaPutin sechiito chokurega demokrasi muRussia uye kudzokera kumashandiro ezvematongerwe enyika anotungamirirwa nehurumende yeSoviet.