Tributes pour in for Boris Yeltsin

Vodka distilleries lined up yesterday to pay tribute to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin who has died aged 76. Dovgan Kubanskaya, a spokesman for Stolichnaya vodka which sells $2 billion a year worldwide, said Yeltsin would be sorely missed by the industry. "Boris Yeltsin was a wonderful man and led the Russian people by example by drinking himself to death. Na zdorovje!"