After President Boris Yeltsin’s controversial reelection in 1996 for a second and final term, the increasingly ailing leader was preoccupied with the question of succession, looking for someone who ...

T he grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

The decision of Belarus and Russia to create the Union State was the only right one, Belarusian President Aleksandr ...

Swedish economist Ander Äslund, Boris Yeltsin's former adviser when he held the Russian presidency, accused Vladimir Putin of having turned Russia into a kind of North Korea following the ...

“On one side of [the battlefield] are the crooks who have seized power in our country, and on the other are people who want ...

On New Year's Eve 1999 the Russian President went on TV and said he was leaving office. Tired and emotional, he apologised to the people for the state of the country. Show more On New Year's Eve ...

When the former Soviet republics declared independence in the early 1990s, Ukraine became the owner of the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.

The government, led by President Boris Yeltsin at the time, wanted to privatize badly managed state-owned companies in an effort to move towards capitalism. The plan to achieve this was called ...

In 1999, then-president Boris Yeltsin dismissed his prime minister at the time, promoting former KGB officer Mr. Putin in his place. Oil prices rose as hopes of an imminent end to the war in ...