Click to play videoNew Delhi: Former President Boris Yeltsin has been buried at the Moscow cemetery on Wednesday with full state honours. He died of heart failure on Monday.
Thousands of people gathered at the Church of Cathedral of Christ in Moscow to pay their last respects.
President Putin, who succeeded Yeltsin, has declared Wednesday as a day of national mourning.
A number of hardline Communist and nationalist members of Russian parliament however, refused to pay tributes to the country's first popularly elected president.
Many Communist and nationalist members of State Duma (lower house of parliament) refused to stand up and observe a minutes silence in Yeltsin's memory.
As the Deputy Speaker Oleg Morozov proposed to begin the proceeding with one-minute silence by standing up to pay tributes to Yeltsin, several MPs on the Opposition benches including Communists and Rodina (motherland) faction remained seated, news agency PTI quoted Russia's Radio Mayak as saying.
Yeltsin (76), who ran the country through the turbulent 1990s (1991 to 1999), has been both praised as a champion of democratic reforms and criticised for condemning millions of people to poverty due to his ill-conceived economic reforms dubbed by his opponents as "shock without therapy".
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