“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 ...

WASHINGTON—In the course of his tumultuous stewardship as leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin suffered the ultimate comedown: from hero of his time to the object of public derision. At the outset, there ...

While there is much debate about the Boris Yeltsin’s checkered legacy, there is no debate about the towering influence he exerted on his country. He was a larger-than-life figure who changed Russia ...

Boris Yeltsin, who pushed for democracy and a market economy as the first freely elected president of Russia, died Monday at age 76. A journalist and a professor discuss Yeltsin's legacy. August 1991, ...

Boris Yeltsin hadn't looked so determined since he stood atop a tank during the attempted coup of August 1991. After a tense week of threats, hints and delays, the president finally counterattacked ...

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 ...

What are we to make of the man who led post-Soviet Russia in its first nine years? Was he the “crude populist” and “erratic” and hard-drinking “quasi-autocrat” of the lore of many an expert and ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boris Yeltsin, the former Russian president who died on Monday, was the first elected leader of the largest country on earth. That achievement alone ensures he will be remembered as ...

Yeltsin has accused Gorbachev of timidity, a taste for perks and a weakness for hogging the limelight. Upon winning election as chairman of the Russian Republic's Supreme Soviet last week, he called ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, was laid to rest on Wednesday next to the graves of an illusionist, a ballerina and a Soviet film star, Russian media ...