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DANIELLE ELIAS, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Thanks for joining us for a new day of CNN Student News. I'm Danielle Elias. Mourning a former leader: After Boris Yeltsin's death yesterday, we examine the legacy of Russia's first democratically-elected president. Feeling secure: After last week's tragic shootings at Virginia Tech University, some students offer their thoughts on safety in school. And dancing together: After years of separate dances, students at one high school in Georgia are starting a new tradition of an integrated prom.

First Up: Boris Yeltsin 1931-2007

ELIAS: First up today, the death of a former world leader. Russia has declared a national day of mourning tomorrow to honor Boris Yeltsin, the country's first democratically-elected president. He died Monday at age 76. Yeltsin helped bring about the end of the Soviet Union and usher reform into Russian politics. He served as that nation's president from 1991 until he resigned on the last day of 1999. As Jill Dougherty explains, Yeltsin's political career was marked by contrasts.

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JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN REPORTER: This is the Boris Yeltsin the world will long remember: August, 1991, astride a tank, the president of Russia facing down a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the Soviet Union.

BORIS YELTSIN, FIRST RUSSIAN PRESIDENT (TRANSLATED): At that time I had only one thought: to save Russia, to save this country, to save democracy and the whole world. Anything else would have led to chaos.

DOUGHERTY: But this, too, is Boris Yeltsin: October, 1993, troops, on orders of Yeltsin, open fire on the parliament house, the very building where he had made his stand two years before.

YELTSIN: This group is pushing Russia toward an abyss. It is no longer possible to ignore or tolerate this situation. The armed mutiny is doomed.

DOUGHERTY: For Gorbachev, long his nemesis, Yeltsin had revealed his true colors:

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, FORMER SOVIET PRESIDENT: He has trampled on democracy. The first freely-elected parliament in Russia in a thousand years and he fires on it with tanks!

DOUGHERTY: For Boris Yeltsin, conflict and survival were the main themes of his life, carrying him from his boyhood in a peasant village near the Ural mountain city of Sverdlovsk, to the highest echelons of the communist party. Gorbachev brought him from Sverdlovsk to Moscow, making him party chief. In 1987 he fires him. In 1990, deposed from the Politburo, Yeltsin quits the communist party. For Boris Yeltsin, it is the first of many re-births. Two years later, he is elected to parliament, becomes its chairman. Then, in June, 1991, the first democratically-elected president of Russia. As Russia celebrates, the Soviet Union is disintegrating. Yeltsin helps to speed up the process. Gorbachev resigns December 25, 1991. Six days later, the USSR officially is dissolved.

After 70 years of a Soviet command economy, Yeltsin's 'shock therapy,' raising prices to world levels all at once, hits average Russians with a vengeance. As the presidential election of 1996 draws closer, Yeltsin seems certain of losing. But once again, Boris Yeltsin, Phoenix-like, rises from the ashes.

But Boris Yeltsin never really begins his second term. Aides say he has a cold. In reality, it's a heart attack. In November, 1996, he undergoes a quintuple heart bypass operation, followed by pneumonia. Boris Yeltsin, the husky Siberian, fights back. Russians see a more relaxed Yeltsin, thanks to his daughter Tatyana, whom he appoints his official "image maker." December 31st, 1999: Boris Yeltsin shocks the world with the announcement that he is stepping down as Russian president, handing the reins of power to Vladimir Putin. To the end, Boris Yeltsin remained a study in contrast: A communist who helped destroy communism, a democrat who called himself a "czar." Jill Dougherty, CNN Moscow.

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ELIAS: Teachers, if you want to have your students learn more about Boris Yeltsin and examine the former Russian leader's legacy from different perspectives, we've put together a Learning Activity that will get you started. You can check it out here.

The Fight for Iraq

ELIAS: Tempers are flaring in Baghdad over a wall that's being built around part of the city. U.S. and Iraqi military leaders say the structure is a temporary security barrier. It's designed to curb insurgent violence, but many Baghdad residents fear the wall will have the opposite effect. Barbara Starr has more on both sides of the issue.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN REPORTER: In the Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya, residents are protesting the new security barrier aimed at keeping out suicide bombers and explosives. People here worry though that they're being forcibly shut off behind a 12-foot wall.

BAGHDAD RESIDENT (VOICE OF TRANSLATOR): The aim of this wall is to isolate Adhamiya. It's a step we think that is not for the good of the people, but is to isolate them.

STARR: Adhamiya is a Sunni stronghold surrounded by Shia neighborhoods, a flashpoint for sectarian violence. Could a barrier help?

ANDREW EXUM, THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: If you're just trying to stop the violence, if you're trying to reduce the amount of killing that's taking place, then it certainly may be a short term fix that's worth exploring.

STARR: But Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki stopped construction. He said there will have to be other ways to protect neighborhoods. He warned this is a reminder of 'other walls,' a not-so-veiled reference to the fence dividing Israel and the West Bank. In Israel, the fence has worked. Attacks there have dropped. But in Iraq, there may be a longer term price to pay.

EXUM: It underlines in a very concrete way, literally concrete, it underlines the fissures in Iraqi society between Shia and between Sunni. And in a lot of ways, it hardens the ethnic and sectarian divisions that have emerged in Baghdad really over just the last two years.

STARR: U.S. commanders expressed surprise at Maliki's objections. They say the Iraqi government knew about this plan all the way along, and that these types of barriers still may be the best way to protect Baghdad neighborhoods. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

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Students Return

ELIAS: Students are back on campus at Virginia Tech as classes resumed yesterday. At a ceremony on the school's drill field Monday morning a bell was rung to mark the beginning of a university-wide moment of silence, followed by the release of 32 white balloons, one for every victim of last week's shootings.

Spoken Word

ELIAS: In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, school security may be in the front of many people's minds. Two students at New Jersey's Smithtown High School East discuss how safe they feel at school in this I-Report submission.

KEVIN, SENIOR: I do feel safe here. I know that most of the security guards are ex-cops so they know what to look for. They're very good. They deal with the day to day, students cutting class, but they also know how to deal with more serious problems. We've done lockdown drills, and they've always gone very well, security is very tight here.

DEAN, SOPHOMORE: I do feel safe in school. Our security does a good job keeping the doors locked during the day. Keeping tabs on the exits, knowing where every student is. However, I think that security could be improved. If you look around at our school, some of the security guards are probably retired, they are in their late 60s, maybe early 70s, and I don't think they could hold their own against a couple of teenagers if anything were to happen.

First Integrated Prom

ELIAS: Students at a high school in Georgia started what they hope will become a new tradition this year: an integrated prom. Black and white students at Turner County High attended prom together for the first time on Saturday. Separate, segregated dances had been organized in previous years, but the school's upperclassmen voted to have just one official prom this year. We've put together an audio slide show to let you hear what students at Turner County have to say about this new tradition. Check it out at CNN.com/EDUCATION.

Shoutout

CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout! What's the closest star to Earth? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Polaris (the North Star), B) Sirius (the Dog Star), C) Cassiopeia or D) The sun? You've got three seconds -- GO! At a mere 93 million miles away, the sun is our closest star. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

Before We Go

ELIAS: Before we go, viewing a heavenly neighbor in a new dimension. You've probably noticed that big bright ball in the sky, right? Well right now you're looking at the sun in a way no one ever has before: 3-D! At least, if you happen to be watching with 3-D glasses on. NASA took these solar snapshots to examine our closest starry neighbor in its full depth. Scientists say the 3-Dimensional view will help them get better at predicting solar eruptions, which can affect communications and power lines here on Earth.

Goodbye

ELIAS: And that's where today's show crosses the horizon. We'll see you tomorrow for more CNN Student News. Thanks for watching. I'm Danielle Elias.