F ORMALLY, THE successor to Russia’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, was Vladimir Putin. In every other sense—ideologically, morally, temperamentally—Yeltsin’s successor was a liberal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin led the political elite Wednesday in paying respects to Boris Yeltsin on the first anniversary of his death, unveiling a patriotic monument to the man who brought ...

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 ...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, was, besides much else, a prolific writer, penning three memoirs in his lifetime. The books are, at times, candid and revealing. Here ...

MINSK, 27 November (BelTA) – The film “Time Chose Us” on the Belarus 1 TV channel shows footage of the first meeting of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in ...

“The end crowns all,” William Shakespeare once wrote. On the face of it, Boris Yeltsin’s end was fabulous: Some 20,000 ordinary people, most leading Russian dignitaries, many world leaders and senior ...

The former head of the administration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Sergei Filatov, has died at the age of 87. Filatov died on August 25, his daughter told the Petersburg Bulletin. Filatov ...