Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building Yeltsin ordered shelled; right, Russian President Vladimir Putin with ...

Beginning in 1924, prominent guests of the publisher autographed leather-bound books during their visits to The Times’s headquarters. By David W. Dunlap A newly declassified analysis argued against ...

When Boris Yeltsin's plane landed in Shannon last week on its way back to Moscow, the Irish prime minister was waiting on the tarmac to give him lunch. He waited and waited, but Yeltsin never got off ...

Reporting from Yekaterinburg, Russia — Visitors to the Boris Yeltsin Museum start their tour with a small mockup of the hall where, on Oct. 21, 1987, the president of what was then the Russian ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want to stay in power beyond the end of his current term and will have stepped down by 2024, the chief of staff to Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Russian officials and family members of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin attend Yeltsin's funeral ceremony in ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...

Russia's former president, Boris Yeltsin, has died. We remember him as the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union. You might recall visiting from 1991, communist hardliners had just ...

Three decades after Boris Yeltsin was inaugurated as Russia's first president, images made by his personal photographers offer a fascinating glimpse into the Yeltsin presidency -- and Russia -- ...

This column was written by Nikolas K. Gvosdev. Boris Yeltsin is a lot like Ulysses S. Grant, and I think history will treat him in the same way as his American predecessor. Both men were heroes with ...

Former President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died Monday. He was 76. Kremlin spokesman Alexander ...